I started collecting “Garbage” in 2007. But I bought my first single “Stupid Girl” in 2006. That makes Driving Lesson my first b-side! My main collection consist of singles but its growing to vinyl and memorabilia. (more…)

In this post are my memorabilia items from Version 2.0 - which I think had some of the better items for promotion as this is when the Garbage Official Store was selling merchandise. There were some really cool items in this era, including great sticker sheets of the V2.0 symbols (all except You Look So Fine - as far as I am aware), mailers, really well packaged press kits and tons of other stuff. I forgot to put my posters , t-shirts and official calendar in this post, but everything else currently resides in my collection :)
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One of the nicest things about collecting records related to any band or artist is that there are always different pressings issued in different countries. For the majority of countries the designs never change that is apart from countries in the Far East, mainly due to the different alphabet that is used as a result the packaging will often get a complete overhaul making it look so much different to the same release issued in the USA or South Africa for example. Items from the Taiwan, Chinese and Japanese markets are typical of this and as a result there are some amazing items that have surfaced over the years from Japan in particular. In fact there are so many that this article was going to be the “Top 5 collectables from Japan” but I’ve changed it as I wanted to include a couple more.
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