Collecting Buttons

[MWooten34]

For those of you who are button collectors, two questions: Why? and How exactly? I've never really thought about it but I just picked a button up on limited/cool factor alone and figure why not get into collecting them more seriously. Thoughts are much appreciated.

[greginchains]

Well, I've got a jacket for the sole purpose of patches and buttons. Every vacation city I visit, or tourist attraction, I track down a patch and a fridge magnet for. Bands and record label pins/bottoms also go on the jacket. TMR dominates as the most items attached to the jacket and once a pic of my tmr patches was photographed and tweeted by swank while at Mi-test. It's just one more thing to collect. Have fun with it!

[mojoryan]

I started collecting buttons when I was 12/13. It was the era of Levi jackets, and no self-respecting music fan/metal-head would be caught dead without them. I stopped "collecting" them, per se, when I was probably 21, but every once in a while I'll snatch one up. I can't explain-beyond the nostalgia of it-the "why."

[mojoryan]

...and once a pic of my tmr patches was photographed and tweeted by swank while at Mi-test. ..

True story...my son (who was wearing his Levi jacket full of pins...apple and the tree, and what-not) was in that pic with him.

[greginchains]

...and once a pic of my tmr patches was photographed and tweeted by swank while at Mi-test. ..

True story...my son (who was wearing his Levi jacket full of pins...apple and the tree, and what-not) was in that pic with him.

He sure was. Forgot about that. What a helluva fantastic time we had!!!

[MWooten34]

So I need to get a jean jacket and go to work? Haha I dig it. I could see picking up a cool button here and there for stuff I find interesting.

[hxcoliver]

I've always loved buttons since I was in middle school. My backpack used to be full of random buttons, a lot of band stuff. A few here and there on jackets thought out the years.
Since TMR, I've collected their buttons and have them up on a frame. Anything TMR related I try and track down, WS, dead weather, racs, or any special event. I've got a decent collection going.

Also, so god damn jealous you scored the Grim buttons. I missed out on the sale.... And was super stoked when he announced he was making some.

[chaptertwentyone]

I wouldn't call myself a collector, but like everyone else it's nice to have a couple for my old army jacket and captain's hat.

[dcmak5]

I wouldn't call myself a collector either but I've picked them up at shows, record stores, and now that they've got coin op button dispensers around town at places like the stone fox/fond object I've found myself grabbing one whenever I'm at either place. though, I've given some of those away to friends.

[MWooten34]

Is something like a jacket the primary way to keep/display these things? I think there are some cool buttons but I'd want to be able to show them off.

[josephodonnell]

I love buttons! I have an array of the 'I'm A Burger...' series from Burger Records as well as a shit tonne of other random promo ones. I don't really collect them as I intend to wear all of them, only with the exception of Kills pins.



This is my favourite I got from a Record Store when on vacation in North Carolina in the US.

[rsimms3]

Is something like a jacket the primary way to keep/display these things? I think there are some cool buttons but I'd want to be able to show them off.

For the 1" buttons I remove the pin and put in a magnet so I can display them on my metal white board.

[MWooten34]

That sounds like a cool way to do it.

[Alabama Woody]

Is something like a jacket the primary way to keep/display these things? I think there are some cool buttons but I'd want to be able to show them off.

For the 1" buttons I remove the pin and put in a magnet so I can display them on my metal white board.

Have you found a source for the magnets already the proper size and thickness or do you cut down your own? Care to share your source.

I bought a black framed cork board recently to put a bunch of mine on.
It won't hold them all. Like the magnet idea.

[dcmak5]

a friends mom collected buttons and kept them pinned to a potato sack (or some other hemp feed sack) that was hanging on the wall

also, meant to say i wouldn't, not would call myself a collector. I just like pins
i'm the same as far as wearing them on jackets, but I've stopped taking some of them out after I lost my "fitna freak" pin at the last freakin weekend, and got lucky enough to find it after the show on the floor after having been stepped all over. I was pissed that i'd almost lost it, but I feel like the only proper way to break in that pin is to have a freakin weekend show audience all step on it lol