Ho-kay... Here's a smidge of my collection:
Divergence Eve (complete, bought vols. 1 and 2 second-hand)
DearS (complete)
Popotan (complete, bought vol. 1 second-hand)
Tenjo Tenge (complete, still waiting for my brother's friend to bring back Round 5 so I can finish off the
series)
Wedding Peach (complete, bought the whole set second-hand for 150$)
My-HiME (3-disc KO set, complete, bought the discs seperately)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie)
Lupin III: Secret of Mamo (movie, freebie from a anime screening)
Magical Play (aka Mahou Yuugi, bought the 2-disc collector's edition for 30$)
Fafner vols. 1-6 (bought vols. 5 and 6 second-hand)
Fafner: Right of Left OAV (KO, complete)
Misaki Chronicles vols. 1 and 2
Nanaka 6/17 vol. 1
Doki Doki School Hours vols. 1, 4 and 5
Ultra Maniac vols. 1-5
Chrono Crusade vols. 1-3 (1st vol. came with a collector's box)
Pretear vol. 1 (this was a freebie from a anime screening survey)
School Rumble (KO 3-disc set, complete)
Gundam SEED vols. 1 and 2
That's all I can post for now, some of the stuff (mostly preorders) took me eons to get and some of them were
bought second-hand...
According to my calculations, your problem doesn't exist.
Oh, and mostly anti-celeb/anti-Hollywood/anti-commercial since 1978