Collecting DM...
People who try to collect everything have a tough time and will properly
end up in the so-called collection hell! You will never be close to your
goal. There will always be so many things missing in your collection,
which means that it will give you more pain than pleasure. Therefore I
think it's important that you have a realistic goal. My goal has always
been: to have everything released in the UK. Everything means 7"
singles, 12" singles, CD singles, albums on both vinyl and CD. I don't
collect cassettes. IMO the UK releases are most original since DM is a
British band and Mute Records are their real record company. Since the
start there have been special artwork on the vinyl labels, but only on
the UK releases. German, Dutch and US releases just put on a standard
label and that sucks. Sometimes the UK releases also have a special
innersleeve with lyrics, pictures and other great stuff. The
soundquality is also a lot better on the UK releases. Okay the Japanese
vinyl do have a fantastic sound quality!. With the CDs it's more
difficult to say, but I still think the sound quality is better on the
UK releases. I always try to collect first editions, and normally it
means you have study the matrix codes very close. The recent years the
US releases have also been attractive to collect, because of mixes not
available on other releases. Besides the UK releases I also collect
releases with from all over the world with different versions or
different artwork. The number of Depeche Mode promos is almost as high
as the commercially releases, and they are very collectable, since some
of them even have unreleased versions. I am also collecting
testpressings from UK, but only if the price is right.
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