Popularity of Vintage
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I see it from a I very practical angle. I recently bought a vintage hifi-amplifier, I found it attractive because of the followig qualities:
- durability: if an item stood the test of time for the last twenty or thirty years, it is very likely to keep going at least another ten years
- value for money
- design: this amplifier for example was build by engineers and not designers, it has no fancy stuff, no useless blends, no shiny buttons for features nobody needs. It does not look like someone wanted it to look like it came of starship enterprise or shit, it was build to work and function, it looks like something that it supposed to make music loud and that is what it does
- uniqueness: if you buy a vintage bookshelf for example, you are likely the only one who owns it, opposed to 80% of people who just got billy from ikea (mind you: nothing wrong with billy)
- patina/character: the use over time leaves it’s marks and adds a certain quality/warmth/liveliness that a brandnew product cannot provide