Do you ever feel like you need to buy everything that a band puts out? If so, which bands do you feel this way about? And how avid are you about collecting: do you just buy one copy of every studio album, or do you buy [i]literally everything[/i] the band puts out (CDs, vinyl, books, DVDs, etc.)?

I used to wish to own everything by, say, the pillows, but I found it to be unrealistic with a band like them. It gets to be too expensive for me, so I instead just gather what I can once in a while. I think it's generally easier to achieve retroactively with bands that only released relatively few things -- like, for example, I have most of everything the Breeders ever did, mostly because they didn't have an overwhelming number of records, even including singles.

Of course, in this day and age, it's easy to get ahold of most everything we want by shopping online. In my dad's record collection, I often laugh because I find duplicates and triplicates and even quadruplicates of Tom Rush records that he bought years ago -- and he explained that, back then, when you could find a copy of an album by a relatively obscure artist in a record shop, the thrill was such that he would just buy it even if he already had it.