And now the pain begins
So in keeping with the theme of getting rid of extraneous stuff for the move, last night was the final epic push to narrow my wrestling tapes down to a manageable number (ie, less than one box). Even after all my dubbing for the past few months, I was still down to five boxes of about 50 tapes each, and at this point my feeling was that enough was enough. So I took the Bryan Alvarez route and just started tossing anything that was either a Coliseum original tape, a vital WCW show, or something I’d be likely to watch in the next few months. Given those parameters, it was actually easier than I expected to toss 20 years of tapes into the dumpster outside, given that I was never going to watch anything ECW again or Heroes of Wrestling or my million shoot interviews and random compilation tapes. So essentially it came down to Summerslams, Royal Rumbles, a few original Coliseum compilation tapes (like Best of SNME, which I forgot I had in the original case!), all the WWF Home Video stuff from the turn of the century (No Way Out 2001 and Judgment Day 2000, baby!) and some other essential stuff. Wrestlemanias went into the garbage, because they were home video versions and not PPV originals, and this now gives me the leverage to buy the Anthology sets without getting yelled at.
So if you need any ECW or Rock N Roll Express compilations, feel free to root through my dumpster, and you’ll probably find some good stuff.
I hate you Keith.
Now that I think more about it, you actually kept everything I would have thrown away, and threw away everything I would have kept. The big 4 (Rumbles, Survivor Series, etc), and the newer stuff (No Way Out, etc)will be more accessible in the coming years through DVD. The ECW, comps and Coliseum videos with hard to find matches that have been erased in history (Bret/HBK ladder match?)hold more value, at least with me. Please tell me you kept all the SNME’s?
I raided my tape collection (currently in storage because I don’t have my own place right now) and grabbed No Way Out 01. Man, that is a great show.
The only good ECW is the ones with Test in ‘em!
Did you pour gasoline on them too, and laugh maniacally as they burned? Are you just trying to make us all sad? I would have loved to have gotten in on a sale of these, or gotten some of the others for that matter.
You know you probably threw about $1,000 worth of stuff into that dumpster? Of course, you also saved yourself weeks of work dubbing and/or shipping them out to people.