Since the two people comparing notes here (Jon Caramanica and Hua Hsu) are both prominent music writers--and music collectors--I think this podcast will speak to a lot of QQ'ers. . . .
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/arts/music/popcast-collecting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/arts/music/popcast-collecting.html
If you know a collector, you know about how collections are more than just agglomerations of items. They are stores of history, stores of emotion. They have a representational value that often far exceeds their literal financial value.
They also take up space, physical and mental. They are often private ventures, not public displays. They scratch very personal itches in ways that are often invisible to anyone else.