Gone from the Blue-Collar Guy

[doug.goodman]

There will always be plenty of stuff for all of us to collect. When I started I was a kid with a paper route, then a teen working in a grocery store, then I took a huge pay cut and became a guy touring with bands nobody had heard of, which gradually turned into gigs that made it possible to have bills to pay, and get paid. That's all pretty blue collar.

Throughout that entire time I collected.

Throughout that entire time there were things I couldn't afford (like a $500 Wagner, hahaha).

Throughout that entire time it could be argued that "investors" were "ruining the hobby".

There was nothing I could do about it then, there is nothing I can do about it now.

Only being able to collect stuff you can afford might not be "fair" but to quote a recent president "it is what it is".

Doug