Cee Tee Jackson

Collections of collections.

(My collection of 113 Marvel + 21 Batman graphic novels.)

Do I have any collections?

Dear reader – I have collections of collections!

I’m sure every publisher and producer of ‘collectibles’ sees me coming. I’m such a sucker for collecting ‘stuff.’ And I don’t mind admitting, I’m quite precious about it all.

BOOKS: books are like living, breathing beings to me. I could never bring myself to knowingly kill or harm an animal – not even an insect. Same goes for books. They deserve our love, care and respect. In addition to the collection of Marvel graphic novels above, I have countless books, many as yet unread, in my office, bedroom and loft.

Pressure on space to keep them all forced me to get rid of loads earlier this year, but I wouldn’t take them to the dump, and instead, the local charity shops benefited.

RECORDS & CDs: my main collection; my pride and joy. Over 3,000 and counting, most of which are catalogued on Discogs, though I do need to update this and review their value when I retire.

Mind, I don’t collect them for their value. I play them regularly. I know I can play only one at a time, and could do so digitally, which would save on space and weight, but I still find something sexy about music in physical formats – especially vinyl.

FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES: I honestly don’t know how many of these I have! They were banished to the loft many years ago, with each new season’s additions joining them every summer. Some day I will list them all. (I’m a bit ‘anal’ that way, I know. 😉 )

However, when you consider I started going to watch games as a kid back in 1967, and have rarely missed a week since the early ’70s, then you can perhaps imagine the stress being placed on the eaves of our home!

(The two images above are of a box that was missed last time I went up into the loft. It contains a season’s worth of my Club’s programmes – Renfrew FC- from some years back, plus some old Stockport County programmes that need to be properly filed away.)

MAGAZINES: I have cut back on the number I read these days, and now subscribe to only one physical magazine each month – Record Collector. I have 130+ of these, which is over ten years’ worth. I keep them beside my record collection and sometimes use them as a reference library when writing pieces for my Loud Horizon blog.

In the loft are about a similar number of Artrocker Magazines. I was the Scottish correspondent for this national music magazine and just can’t bear to let them go!

An edition of Athletics Weekly magazine from 1972, blue top and bottom borders with b/w image of cross country runners running uphill.
(Athletics Weekly: I have no idea how many of these I have!)

There are also several boxes of football papers and magazines from the ’70s, but there’s likely even more copies of Athletics Weekly. I bought this from when I first took up competitive running as a thirteen-year-old in 1972 and continued it till I had to give up through injury about ten years later.

To be honest, I don’t know why I keep these – they’re just part of my past, I guess. And training / competing was such a big part of my young life.

It’s sad, I know, but I get quite excited when I’m engrossed in my collections. I think it’s a nostalgic thing. Everything I read / play brings back memories of some sort.

Yeah – my name’s Colin (Cee Tee) and I’m a ‘collector.’

I suppose.

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13 comments

  1. Fabulous. I wish I lived closer so we could trade books and borrow each others vinyl. I can never have enough of either.
    I’ll leave the Marvel and sports programs for someone else…
    😉

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  2. 😀

    (To be honest, many of the Marvel books are a bit tedious. The very old strips are best because they were so ‘camp’ and over the top. But the ones that go all gothy and dark can be a bit of a chore.

    But once I started, it was difficult to stop the collection – until the publishers couldn’t confirm how much longer they’d be producing them. I’d already collected for 4 years and it seemed never ending, so I did eventually just duck out.)

    😀

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  6. I love those books! I love books and mine are spread about…I totally get what you are talking about.
    I collect also…I have over 12 guitars and counting. In 1999 my then soon to be wife and I started to get interested in The Peanuts…not Planters but the Charles Schulz variety. Over the next couple of years we traveled far and wide to every thrift and antique store not to mention Flea Markets looking for 60s-70s Peanut items…we ended up with over 10,000 dollars worth of stuff. If we see something now we will get it but everything has gone up way too high but we would never sell.

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  7. Twelve guitars! Wow! I have a bass guitar, given by my staff when I left the Bank twenty years ago come October …. I still can’t play it. Never had the patience (or long fingers) to learn.
    ~
    ~Which is why my wife questions why I want to buy a ‘proper’ guitar to learn when I retire in few months time. 😀

    I know what you mean about not selling your collection. Our Diane is like “What? That LP is worth £120? Why not sell it and then download it again for free on Apple music?”

    She doesn’t ‘get’ collections at all! It has nothing to do with value.

    It’s all about the security and comfort of just ‘knowing’ and ‘looking’ isn’t it?

    🙂

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  9. Yup! But it can be very annoying as they don’t come in sequential order. So you have to subscribe to the whole series if you want a complete picture. You may be able to see the DC set is all over the place image wise, despite the books being bought in the order they were published.
    Hope that makes sense. 😉

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