The cassette, a once-useful and now completely irrelevant music format, refuses to die. It’s not that people are buying them to play, though; they’re collectibles and tchotchkes and merch. Goldin, a marketplace for
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Leave it to Tool to come up with some weird and interesting merch. Earlier this month, the band announced the sale of something they called a “fetus in skull,” which is based on
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Six years after The Tragically Hip took a final bow in Kingston, do you regret not picking up a poster from the tour? Is there a show or tour that played a pivotal
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eBay has changed the way people look at music memorabilia. Not only has eBay vastly inflated prices for collectibles, but the site has made it possible to trade just about anything music-related. For
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As the live event industry moves more and more towards digital tickets, I’ve heard many complaints from old-schoolers who have spent many years collecting ticket stubs to the shows and events they’ve attended.
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When he was still with us, Johnny Ramone was one of the biggest baseball nuts anywhere. For years, he collected 8-by-10 glossy photos of major league players. When the band wasn’t touring or
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It used to be that bootlegs and promo items were the most collectible things a music fan could look for. Now people are looking for multi-media collectibles. These are computer programs that are
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Joe Exotic was one a pro wrestler? That got left out of Tiger King. Moving to random music news for April 9, 2020. Coronavirus update 1: The Canadian live music scene is suffering.
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When it comes to collecting music, all the glory and attention goes to rare vinyl. That’s the stuff that tends to sell for big money. But what about compact discs? Surely there must
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My wife demanded that I go through my closet as part of a spring purge of clothes. This led to the annual discussion over the need to keep all my old concert t-shirts.
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Funko, a toy manufacture, has announced the imminent release of a series of GNR dolls (these are NOT action figures) targeted at music collectors. There’s no hard-and-fast release date yet, but the company
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