When Nostalgia meets money?

Nostalgia meets money: VHS tapes are the new kid on the collectibles when the format was first introduced. YORK: Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment opportunities. Heritage Auctions in June, a "Back to the Future" videocassette went for $75,000, while "Jaws" copies were sold for $50,000 and $32,500, respectively. 1970s, when the format"You'll be lucky to get $5 each, says this active eBay user, who declined to give his last name only some movies that hadn't online or on other medium, as well as little known horror movies, could command higher prices, sometimes above $1,000 this new trend on blockbuster titles, particularly from the early 80s. To be deemed valuable, a tape has to meet some specific criteria, with a premium put on first editions and sealed copies. A limited edition, such as a larger box version of "Star Wars", would also draw interest on blockbuster titles, particularly from the early 80s. To be deemed valuable, a tape has to meet some specific criteria, with a premium put on first editions and sealed copies. A limited edition, such as a larger box version of "Star Wars", would also draw interest. George Lucas sci-fi cult classic is widely considered a must and several copies have already for over $10,000. Holy Trinity be movies from the first slate ever released on the US market in 1977, namely "MASH", "Patton" and "The Sound of Music", by a financially troubled 20th Century Fox with Magnetic Video. Carlson, VHS Consignment director at Heritage Auctions, said these could reach "a six-digit number, maybe seven. -time collectors are wondering about the sudden surge, 16 years after the last release of a film in this format ("A History of Violence"). The last video recorders were manufactured in 2016 think a lot of it is nostalgia and the compulsion to collect", says Philip Baker, who runs the www.videocollector.co.uk website One of the special things about VHS over I wanted to be on have to think about anything as much as I think about you how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.