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what are the indie-est things you own?

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by loamiathon

now that i have left most of my belongs elsewhere i realise that if people saw my stuff they wouldn't be able to judge me very easily. where is the fun in that? didn't i used to be an indie snob? so i got to thinking about the indie-est things i have ever owned. they are, probably...

a signed david devant and his spirit wife single (ginger), shellac's at action park on original cassette tape, thurston moore's root boxset thingy, a memory of a racist joke told to me by the killers drummer (pre tache), some laika matches and two joy division tapes (still and unknown pleasures) in ltd edition purple display cases....

nothing counts if you got things from the internet....thats not that indie now is it?

loamiathon | 23 Mar '07, 14:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I have

my ticket stub for Howling Bells signed by Juanita, and a photo of me and my PAL cuddling upto her beauty.

I have a drumstick I stole from Secret Machines.


a mixtape (not cd) from david hammond

which has gomez and the beta band and nada surf and elastica on it. and obviously other stuff but i can't remember what


thanks

i'm also a pisces


I have a bucket

of stuart murdoch's tears.


A stool sample from

Steve Lemaq after he took a shit at a forward russia gig.


I own one of

Kele Okereke's dreadlocks.

True story.


he told me that joke

you fuck.


oh yeah

i meant the other one...the one about the egyptian


you win

i used to go into clothing stores and laugh everytime it said menswear upstairs...where is johnny dean i would ask?


I've got a signed copy

of Parallel Lines on vinyl.


me too

wait a minute....do i know you?


you don't have it any more.

ha ha ha.


please please please please

keep him there.


I might let him out

if I see a viable market for a comeback tour.


*

Waller


surely you should

move him to your shed, non???


ask bamos

he has 7


I live in a flat

it wouldn't be convenient


oh you lucky bastard

I've got Sheds 1-6 and have been searching for Shed 7 for years


you mean....

the shed that was number six in a line of twelve sheds?....


surely sheds

plural?


...

"hey all you kids there's a brand new sound/ so put your nintendo's and playstation's down/ cos chris evans and shed seven will/ save the uk music scene"


.

Signed Altern8 album on tape from an old boss who used to go to rave's in abandoned mills in Leicester in '89 when he was at art school there. Reckon I could flog it to some nu-rave berk for loads on t'bay?


zwan matches

a lighter by the band Boy Kill Boy used to be
cultural ice age 7"


hmm

idlewild - chandalier 7"
first arcade fire ep, one of the original pressings signed by win
program from the arcade fire's first european show

therapy? combination lighter and bottle opener (lol)

rivers cuomo's guitar pick


My Simon Joyner 5x7" set of

folk covers.

Soon...


FOG BAND seven inch

one of hotchips email address


I've got one of those BSP pencils

So there's more than one in the world. I even have a picture of me sticking it up my nose en route to catch a plane to Barcelona.

Not indie enough.


a tin of beans

from the actual supermarket jarvis cocker took the greek girl to in common people.


signed cribs single

cribs setlist/drumstick

erm thats it


I've got

an InMe lighter

Drumsticks from Biffy Clyro, The Bezerker, Betty Curse, Murderdolls

signed ticket stub from Orange Goblin gig

A mark on my head from My Ruin's drummer, who threw me one of her sticks, cracked me on the head and the bloke next to me caught the rebound - cunt!

A bootleg CD of the Green Day gig I attended at the Collide-A-Scope venue that I randomly found in Camden a couple weeks later.

The original 'Lipstick Traces' 12" by the Manics


Idlewild's Queen of the Troubled Teens 7"

The lead singer of Bennett is also now my butler.


Nah

She goes for me, I hired her as well.


Good man


ooh

a jet johnson tribute album too....i like this game...its like playing with myself over the internet....they should have a word for people like me


A SIDE PARTING!!!!!!!

A 'star' tattoo
some battered converse trainers
stripey socks!
a 5 stringed guitar
a glum expression on my face!


sounds emo

to me....you emo


um

an all numbers forward russia setlist
iLiKETRAiNS Stainless Steel EP with hand painted CDR

probably liek some other stuff an ting


ooh

I've got that iLiKETRAiNS one. Was that the one they were sending out for free?


yeah :)

if you emailed them and asked for it. apparently worth about 30 squid on eBay now. hooray!


Really?

Ace! Sorry Dave, I'm skint!

SALE.


Awesome!

Shame I can't find my copy of it anywhere. I think it's in a box somewhere in my parents' house :(


fuck really?

I've got that too. I thought like, everyone had one.

who wants mine? You can have it for £50.


Some limited edition David Thomas Broughton

tour EPs with his artwork


Best one yet


that's not indie

you meant an enourmous sense of self pity.


you should cut down on your pork-life mate

GET SOME EXERCISE!


oh

i also have a cowbell belonging to Blood Red Shoes. if steve would just let me know when he's around, i'd give it back to him..


A piece of

British Sea Power Kendal mint cake from their 2003 tour


I also have

the limited edition White Stripes 7" given away by MoJo for free - now worth about £45!


£45

really? fuck, that is awesome.


i'd have eaten that by now

mmm, mint cake


It's four years old!

You'd die of OutOfDateCake.


i'd have eaten it

at the time of purchase in 2003

also, kendal mint cake is made of peppermint flavouring and sugar. does sugar go off? i'm sure it doesn't (Y) you'd be fine.


And that is precisely why

you will never win an indie-ness competition


indeed :(


Coldplay's

safety EP
Not sure it's indie...


Richey Manic's body

too far?


i have two pairs of mary-janes?

i dunno, i lose this game.


.

One does have the original fox skin from one's first hunt. Charlie was there, what a humdinger of a day, what.


Punk star tattoo

Dinosaur Jr vinyl
Some specific outfits that I would only ever wear while at a festival


.

A signed Twa Toots single

Sarah records fanzines

Blood Red Shoes' towel


groop dogdrill

setlist!!!

having the nme steal a news story that matt bellamy posted to my muse mailing list when i was 15!


I had j mascis' plectrum

but lost it :(


half of one of graham coxon's drummer's drumstick

he threw it into the crowd and i had to remonstrate with a fan before we split it is half.

i'm 6' 3", i should've threatened him more.


Im number 0006 on the iliketrains railclub

Thats gotta be worth something, right?


the lead singer of we are scientists' towel

the drummer from good shoes' drum stick

that's about it :(


Hot Snakes poster

signed by John 'Speedo' Reis.

MC Lars single for the song 'Signing Emo' signed by the man himself, which reads: "To Ross, stay fresh, MC Lars."


number 2 of a limited edition set of 100 of

'karaoke time with misty's big adventure volume 1'.

a jwo poster for the 5 interesting lies vinyl which has lots of my lies on it.

an orange hat with bread and shit pictures on it that i got for free off joel gibb of the hidden cameras.


a hefty splinter of the guitarist from

Oxfam Glamour models' guitar


i also have

#3 of the 65days 'radio protector' single.


a

signed copy of 'yankee hotel foxtrot'.
jeffrey lewis boxset.
saddle creek coasters.

not indie enough? okay.


im in brainlove 7" club

does that count?


a promo copy of ikara colt's second album,

given to me by john peel, with a little label on the back where he'd written the lengths and ratings of each of the tracks.
under track 5 it says 'Fall-lite'.


i've got

falling and laughing (falling and laughing, falling and laughing)

the original postcard single

(ooo ooo ooo)


Ive got the F#A# infinity vinyl with crushed penny

plus an old flyer for when they supported low and an old ticket for them with molasses at the Hotel2tango. These all came after i mailed off for the vinyl. This photo too:

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p131/Kroatoan/mesophie.jpg

A megaphone, a bucketload of Los Camps! merch and the piece de resistance:

Rolf Harris' Autograph!