Aspie's collect the darnedest things

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I could swear I saw that in a record store decades ago.

Yep, I bet that's one that will stay on vinyl forever, not quite ready for CD release like this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1_f94-IVs

thank god for youtube

I collect stereophonic renditions of monophonic original music recordings.

Same here. Have you noticed on the "what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?" thread that outside of a few live video clips, every track I've posted is in ((stereo))? Now that "mono purist" Mickie Most is gone in the UK, a huge chunk of Pye-released British 60's rock is finally surfacing in remastered-into-stereo for the first time, finally giving what's left of my ears treat after treat. I'm also very excited about the new British "colour recovery" technology that is able to put the real original hues back into black and white TV programmes.

the british colour recovery tech also includes restoration of full motion/elimination of judder from kinescopes, and also line/detail extrapolation [sharper picture and smoother motion] that part excites me even more I have a sony TV that has judder elimination on it, so movies have what videophiles called "the dreaded soap opera effect" but that is what I LOVE! I HATE judder! judder is an assault upon my visual system. the sony motionflow algorithm makes my movies all look like they were shot on hidef video just yesterday.

I notice the Trax shoes on the right look very similar to Adidas shoes, except there is one extra stripe - probably to avoid a cease & desist order.
I am enjoying the 1992 tapes more than the older ones - there are some very rare soft rock songs on those tapes from the early '90s and late '80s, as well as a few smooth jazz and Muzak covers here and there mixed with the K-Mart ads. I enjoy the ad mentioning not smoking on the sales floor.

I collect the stickers off of bananas and other produce. I paste them on boxes and such.

I might have a wee collection of "Stereophonic demonstration", "Graphic equalizer setup" and binaural recordings, all on vinyl, plus a mess of environmental (typically binaural, of rainstorms, rain forests, meadows, etc.) disks from the early days of CD's...Haven't thought about them since the mid 1990's, they're probably still stored away in the crawlspace at my folks' house.

I hope you go there and rescue your flat friends from moldering death.

Oh, they're fine, but thanks. Unless there's a fire or massive water leak they'll be safe until the sad day when my siblings and I have to clean out The House, hopefully not for another decade or so. Besides, somehow as I've, uh, grown less young...collections don't mean much to me any more. Weird, as they were always a part of me...

I actually had an identical pair to these Trax sneakers

in high school, and they were about as close to Adidas I think they ever came (Samoa style?)
Pryor to that, I had a pair of their Converse knockoffs:

and sometime later on some Asics Tiger "clones"

with the stripe design virtually upside down from the Asics/Onitsukas.
It seems that blue and white were the common colours of the Trax branding for males, I assume since most dudes wore them with blue jeans. IIRC there were "dressier" brown and tan combinations offered for girls/ladies...

(I always felt the ladies' Trax styles resembled bowling shoes more than sneakers).
As for infringements, I see according to one website, Trax did produce a three-striped hi-top basketball shoe, which appearently was VERY short-lived...
http://www.sneakzrus.net/wp-content/upl ... 54x203.jpg
I don't recall seeing ^these^ at any KMart, so I bet the C&D was pretty rapid.

My greatest special interest crosses over into my collection... I'm hugely into Steven Wilson, a musician. I have copies of all of his CDs, some in multiple formats, where available, and always travel some 8 hours round trip whenever he makes it to the USA while touring. My collection I'm referring to is my live concert memorabilia. I like to come back from shows with a set list or tour book or something that I might've managed to get signed, sometimes things like parking garage tickets, hotel notepads showing the hotel's insignia if I've spent the night, receipts from any merch I may have bought, things like that. Then I make scrapbook type pages of the stuff, plus my ticket stubs and sometimes photos of me or my daughter at the show, and then frame it all and add it to my Steven Wilson concert memorabilia wall in my craft room/cat room (the litter boxes are in there too).

All of this amuses me greatly when I think about it when listening to one of Steven Wilson's songs, called Index, in which he sings about being a Collector. My special interest has a special interest in collecting, and I collect items of special interest about said special interest (who has a special interest in collecting, as I just said)! LOL!!

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I collect books, certain video games, Clamp manga, pretty stones and crystals, and random stuff I find in nature.

Did they make an Arabic language version?

If so then we could use it on the prisoners at Gitmo! Lol!

I collect bird feathers, which probably isn't all that weird all things considered, but does get me some strange looks if I forget my social etiquette and do so compulsively - cue crazy person picking up stuff off the sidewalks.
In fact I just arrived at my parents' house to find one of their neighbour's cats has killed and eaten a bird on their doorstep, leaving behind a bunch of beautiful bottle green feathers. One the one hand, yay bird feathers, on the other, poor dead bird. So torn.