After being reminded of the phrase “The Avarice List” by my good buddy Paul, I’ve decided to compile my current “wishlist.”
These are the things that I would buy if I had infinite money and no responsibilities:
7 Seconds – All ‘80s albums
Accept – Accept, I’m a rebel, Breaker, Russian Roulete
AC/DC – All the Bon Scott albums
Acid Bath – All albums
Aerosmith – First five albums
Alice Cooper – Some of the famous albums like ‘Nightmare and ‘Babies
Amon Amarth – Vs The World, Fate Of Norns, Deceiver of the Gods
Amplifier – All the albums I don’t own already
Angra – All albums
Autopsy – First two albums
Armored Saint – All albums
Bad Brains – First two albums
Anathema – All the albums I don’t own already, especially the new one.
Annihilator – First four albums and new one, and all Padden-era ones I don’t own already.
Anthrax – Live The Island Years, Vol. 8,
Anvil – First five albums
Architects – Lost Together Lost Forever
At The Drive In – All the albums I don’t own already
A.B.W.H – Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
Bad Company – That boxset
Baroness – All the albums I don’t own already
Biohazard – All the albums I don’t own already
Blackfoot – All the albums I don’t own already
Black Flag – First two albums
Black Sabbath – All the albums I don’t own already, Also Iommi and Geezer solo albums
Black Label Society – All the albums I don’t own already
Black Tusk – All the albums I don’t own already
Blind Guardian – All albums
Blitzkrieg – First two albums
Blue Oyster Cult – That big boxset
Boston – Don’t Look Back
Budgie – All albums
California Breed Their album
Candlemass – First three albums
Cannibal Corpse – All the albums I don’t own already
Carpathian Forest – All the albums I don’t own already
Carcass – All their albums
Celtic Frost – All their early albums
Children Of Bodom – Blooddrunk, Halo Of Blood
Chimaira – Crown Of Phantoms
Circles – Debut album
Crimson Glory – First two albums
Clutch – All the albums I don’t own already
Cog – All the albums I don’t own already
Crowbar – All albums
Cynic – Focus
C.O.C – All the albums I don’t own already
Danzig – First four albums
Darkane – All their albums
Dark Angel – First three albums
Dark Tranquility – The Gallery
The Darkness – All the albums I don’t own already
Devildriver – Winter Kills
Dead Kennedys – All albums
Dead Letter Circus – All albums
Death – All albums
Deicide – First four albums
Destruction – First three albums & EP
Dew Scented – All the albums I don’t own already
Diamond Head – 2nd & 3rd album
Dimmu Borgir – All their albums
Dio – All the albums I don’t own already
Discharge – Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Disturbed – All the albums I don’t own already
Dissection – A Storm Of Lights Bane
Dismember – Their first four albums
Distorted Harmony – Chain Reaction
The Dear Hunter – All albums & EPs
D.O.A – First five albums and crossover album with Jello Biafra
Downset – All the albums I don’t own already
Dozer – That demo collection
Dragon Force – 2nd album
Dream Theater – All the albums I don’t own already
D.R.I. – Thrash Zone & Crossover
ELP – All the albums I don’t own already
Edge Of Sanity – Crimson
Edguy – All albums
Emperor – All albums
Entombed – All the albums I don’t own already
Exodus – All the albums I don’t own already
Extreme – All the albums I don’t own already
Exciter – First two albums
Eye Hate God – All albums
Faith No More – All the albums I don’t own already, Also B-Sides
Fates Warning – All albums
Fear Factory – All the albums I don’t own already
Fight – All albums
Five Horse Johnson – All the albums I don’t own already
Fleshgod Apocalypse – All albums
Flotsam & Jetsom – First two albums
Foghat – All the early albums I don’t own already
Free – All the early albums
Freedom Call – All albums
Fun Manchu – All the albums I don’t own already
Gallows – All the albums & EPs I don’t own already
Gama Bomb – All the albums I don’t own already
Gamma Ray – All the albums I don’t own already
G.B.H – First two albums
Genesis – All the albums I don’t own already
Gentle Giant – All the albums I don’t own already
Ghost Of A Thousand – New Hopes New Demonstrations
Girlschool – That boxset
Gojira – All albums
Gorguts – First two albums
The Grand Astoria – All the albums & EPs I don’t own already
Grave Digger – All albums
Green Day – All the albums I don’t own already
Grim Reaper – First three albums
Gryphon – Red Queen To Gryphon Three
Hakken – All albums
The Haunted – The Haunted Made Me Do It
Hawkwind – Space Ritual
Hammerfall – All the albums I don’t own already
Hatebreed – All the albums & EPs I don’t own already
Helloween – All the albums I don’t own already, also B-Sides
Helstar – First three albums
Holocaust – The Nightcomers
Holy Terror – First two albums
Iced Earth – All the albums I don’t own already
In Flames – All the early albums
Iron Butterfly – Inna Gadda Da Vida
Iron Moneky – All albums
Iron Saviour – All albums
IQ – First two albums
Jag Panzer – Ample Destruction
Jethro Tull – All the albums I don’t own already
Judas Priest – All the albums I don’t own already
Kansas – That big boxset
Killswitch Engage – That self-titled debut demo album
King Diamond – That big boxset
Kings X – That boxset
Kiss – All the albums I don’t own already
Korn – All the albums I don’t own already
Kreator – All the albums I don’t own already
Life Of Agony – All the albums I don’t own already
Linkin Park – Meteora
Leprous – All albums
Lunatic Soul – All albums
Lynyrd Skynrd – All the albums I don’t own already
Machine Head – New album
Madball – All the albums I don’t own already
Yngwie Malmsteen – All the Rising Force albums
Manowar – First four albums
Masterplan – All albums
Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun
Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
MD.45 – The Craving
Melechesh – All the albums I don’t own already
Mercyful Fate – Melisa
Metallica – Beyond Magnetic, Lulu, Live Shit Binge & Purge
Metal Church – All the early albums
Metsatol – All albums
Misfits – All albums
Molly Hatchet – That boxset
Mondo Generator – Cocaine Rodeo
Montrose – That boxset
Monuments – All albums
Morbid Angel – First four albums
Mother Love Bone – All albums
Motorhead – All the albums I don’t own already
Motley Crue – Girls Girls Girls
Mudhoney – Debut EP & album
Mushroom Head – New album
My Sleeping Karma – All albums
Nasum – Inhale Exhale
Nevermore – All albums
Nightwish – All the early albums
Nuclear Assault – All the albums I don’t own already
Obiturary – That boxset
Onslaught – All the albums I don’t own already
Overkill – All the albums I don’t own already
Ozzy Osbourne – Speak Of The Devil & Tribute
Pain Of Salvation – All the albums I don’t own already
Papa Roach – Their 2nd album
Parkway Drive – Debut album
Pearl Jam – Binaural
Pestilence – All the albums I don’t own already
Porcupine Tree – All the albums I don’t own already
Possessed – First two albums
Powerman 5000 – All the albums I don’t own already
Powerwolf – All albums
Primal Fear – All albums
Psychotic Waltz – All the albums I don’t own already
Queen – All the albums I don’t own already
Quartz – All albums
Radiohead – All the albums I don’t own already
Rage – First four albums
RATM – Renegades
Raven – All albums
Rammstein – All the albums I don’t own already
The Ramones – That big boxset
Ram Jam – Best Of
Ratt – That boxset
Red Fang – Debut album
Rhapsody – Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
Riot – All albums
Riverside – Debut album
Rise To Remain – New album
Rob Zombie – That big boxset
Rossington Collins Band – First two albums
Running Wild – All albums
Rush – All albums I don’t already own
Sabaton – All the albums I don’t own already
Sacred Reich – All the albums I don’t own already
Samson – All the albums with Bruce
Savatage – All the albums I don’t own already
Saxon – All the albums I don’t own already
Scorpions – All 70s & 80s albums
Sex Pistols – Deluxe Never Mind The Bollox with loads of B Sides
Shadows Fall – All the albums I don’t own already
Sheavy – All the albums I don’t own already
Sick Of It All – All the albums I don’t own already
Sixty Watt Shaman – Debut album
Skid Row – All albums
Sweet – Desolation Boulevard
Skyharbour – All albums
Slipknot – New album
Sleep – All the albums I don’t own already
S.O.D – Bigger Than The Devil
Sodom – All the albums I don’t own already
Soen – Debut album
Soulfly – All the albums I don’t own already
Soundgarden – All the albums I don’t own already
Sonata Arctica – First two albums
Suicideal Tendencies – First four albums
Suffocation – First two albums
Stone Sour – All the albums I don’t own already
Stone Temple Piolts – All the albums I don’t own already
Stormwitch – Beauty And The Beast
Stratovarius – All the albums I don’t own already
Symphony X – All albums
Temple Of The Dog – All albums
Testament – All the albums I don’t own already
Thank You Scientist – All albums
Thin Lizzy – All the albums I don’t own already
Trapeeze – All the albums with Glen Hughes
Trivium – All the albums I don’t own already
Trouble – All the early albums
Twisted Sister – Debut album
Tygers Of Pan Tang – All the albums I don’t own already
Type O Negative – That big boxset
UFO – That big boxset
UK – All albums
Uriah Heap – That big boxset
Van Der Graff Generator – All the albums I don’t own already
Venom – First three albums
Vista Chino – Peace
Voivod – War & Pain, Nothingface
Warrant – That boxset
Whitesnake – That big boxset
Yes – All the albums I don’t own already
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
Frank Zappa – Some of the famous albums eg Hot Rats
Also the solo albums by Jon Fratelli and Carl Barat
I would add every superhero movie ever made;
Quite a few Superhero cartoons,
Every Batman, Spawn, Dredd & Spiderman TPB ever released,
Every documentary about Hard Rock and Metal music,
Every autobiography of a musician I like,
and every other installment of a videogame series in which I have another game already.
Wow, that took way too long to type!