SW printer's test posters
Why do people buy them?
almost any person on the street would ask the same question about why any of us collect anything.
we see value in an item that has no other value.
Collectibles are abstracts, no matter what the field.
Tell the average person on the street that you spent $500 on a movie poster and they'll call the white jacket boys.
consider this, if you bought a poster for $500, you just spent as much money on a piece of paper as approximately 40% or more of wage earners take home on a weekly basis. They think spending $ on this useless shit is complete insanity
it doesn't make you an elite collector to them, it makes you an elitist schmuck because you can afford to buy shit like this stuff.
of course, then they go and buy $200 sneakers
but to answer the question: they buy them because they are whacked-out collectors like the rest of us