toadphoney said about 3 years ago or at 3:15PM on Monday, February 1 2010 in chat
What exactly happens when you get an autograph? I had ernie dingos (which I never wanted) and lost it when I moved house.
Does anyone actually keep autographs? In one of thise books? Whose do you have?
Do you still get shit signed?
I still get stuff signed from time to time, I really need to like the band.
I got my Era Valgaris Vinyl signed my Josh Homme.
I have signed stuff but most of it is from bands that my friends are in. Kinda lame really.
I only bother with cds. Half of my cds are now in the local hock shops. 90's boy bands mainly
I have only asked Dean Wareham and Naomi Yang (ex-Galaxie 500) to sign their albums, DVDs and Books.
I reckon It is silly to ask someone to sign on a piece of paper or your diary. What's the point?
my copy of min chips' kitchen tea thankyou is signed by julian patterson. i won it (already signed) on pbs. think it was on djbllx's show, or maybe mswahili's. it's the only autographed thing i own. mentioned it to julian once and he seemed uncomfortable about having done it.
anyway, it's a great record and julian is the greatest so... i think it's kinda funny and daggy and cool and i aint sellin it to no-one y'hear!?
oh once when i was in highschool i wagged the arvo classes to see regurgitator play upstairs at gaslight. they played 'sucked a lot of cock...' acoustic and maybe another tune before signing stuff for the army of kids. i brought the a4 poster of them in gangsta hoodies & some serious fake bling. i got it from HM (hot metal) magazine. they cracked up hard when i put it in front of them, which made me feel good. that's probably at mum's somewhere in a box.
I have a bunch of signed CDs & signed tour programmes by Steve Coogan and Russell Brand.
The subject of autographs has been on my mind lately so I dug this thread up. My mate lives in New York and he went to a bookshop that hosted a signing by Iggy Pop, so he picked up a book of Stooges photographs for me for my birthday then asked Mr Osterburg to sign it.
Funhouse might be my favourite album of all time so I felt elated to get this prezzie. But it's kind of weird isn't it, getting a thrill from having a signature from someone you've never even met? It doesn't feel very adult! And if I did meet Iggy I'd never ''spoil it'' by asking for his autograph anyway.
What do you think, are autographs total bullshit? It it just eventual eBay material to sell off? Or have you got signed stuff that means a lot to you and you wouldn't part with?
Happy for friends to sign stuff as a thankyou if I've been involved.