Right on, worntorndress! I suppose another part of my reasons for not buying multiples at the time they were released is due to the fact that I was a very young fan in 2004...I may have been 16?? I had limited money to spend, and buying an imported limited edition 2 CD set of Where Did Our Love Go was already a bit much as it was, let alone buying two of them. I still get those feelings though where I feel like I need to go back and get second sealed copies of everything, because I read those posts from fans of other artists that say, "Oh I have three sealed copies of each title! Here's a photo of the entire collection of CD digipacks in my glass cabinet!" And then it sets off my internal "I need to do this" alarms. Some of it really feeds into the OCD tendencies [[a lot of us super fans have different degrees of it) and some of it feeds into our human nature to want to make an identity for ourselves, such as being a fan of something, and then we feel that we need to preserve that identity at all costs....or else we think on a deeper level, 'what are we in the eyes of others?' "God forbid I don't have three sealed copies of the same CD, otherwise I'll feel like I'm worthless!!" [[Sarcasm).
And yes, as silly as that sounds, that's what fuels the psychology behind the obsessive collecting frenzy amongst us fans...and I can say that because I've lived it and overspent over many years, and it never truly feels like it's enough. It's not a good place to be in because the joy is removed from collecting and it just becomes a self destructive OCD mess.
So yeah, do whatever makes you most happy.
I say enjoy it, my friend!
It's too bad that Universal made these releases so severely limited in the first place!
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