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Originally Posted by Lurker
Did 80s nostagia become expensive? Things don't just lose appeal, surely appeal is about whether an individual finds something appealing or not (that isn't saying anything about whether something is good). But anyway, if something loses its appeal when the privileged become interested then it clearly hasn't lost it's appeal; does an increase in the number of people interested in something mean an decrease in the thing's appeal? That would be a contradiction.
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I suppose, in the case of music, once a group becomes popular they can lose their appeal due to over-exposure, i.e., Sigur Ros's music being used to soundtrack every sporting moment of 2008. I have no idea how 80s nostalgia could have appealed to anyone at any point.
Anyway I'm just glad I finally know what a 'rah' is. Apparently the university I goto has lots of them.