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Originally Posted by 66Sexy
What is it about the collecting? The aesthetic of the giant cover? The aesthetic of the giant vinyl? Both? I mean I get how collecting stuff can be irrational but still make sense to the person in question even if they can't put it into words. I mean I have a giant collection, hundreds of gigs, of digital comics on an external hard drive. Most of it I'll likely never read, but I don't care cause I just like having it. Not even just because it gives me the option to read them if I want, but it's oddly soothing to have a comprehensive library of things you think are cool. And this does not interfere with my buying of actual comics, nor does my physical collection cause me to delete digital comics since they're two separate collections and it doesn't matter if I have duplicates. To delete my digital copies would be to leave holes that would feel wrong.
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Bold pretty much describes it for me. I like to own the things I like. I deleted my online music library. Nothing to do with aesthetic as far as main collecting reasons go. Plus, every collector knows the feeling of finding something rare that isn't usually seen, like a rare promo or a psych band that only pressed a few copies of an album in 1966 and then disappeared forever. It's addicting.