^ Wow, more power to ya! I don't spend that kind of money on tour goods, even if I'm actually at the concert and the merch is exceptionally desirable. My biggest tour in that respect was Hello Pro Award '09 ~Elder Club Sotsugyou Special~, where I spent a total of ¥22,200 (about $250) on goods and photos — and nearly 4 1/2 hours waiting in line to buy them. I spent about $650 on
tickets for all three shows that weekend, however.
I don't buy a lot of official photos myself, since I always feel so guilty about spending so much on them. I do go a bit crazy at concerts or H!P Official Shops, but even so, I still only have two binders of official photos that I've bought full-price at concerts, H!P Official Shops, and HelloStoreUSA over the past seven years. Mitt Romney probably has more binders than that.
If I can get the photos super-cheap, however, that's a different story. I scored a lot of 157 Yaguchi photos for ¥200 on Y!AJ a few months ago and feel absolutely no guilt about that! (Though it does pain me that the market for Yaguchi photos is so bad that I was
able to get them for such a low price.)
Starra wrote:For photo collectors,
this site may be useful. They have info (and small previews) on every official photo. So this way you can see if you're missing any
.
That'll be useful for organizing my huge mass of Yaguchi pics!