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I've thought of the related phenomenon as "the only thing you can't buy is time."
I.e. there's no amount of money you can spend today to make something 45 years old
So as we increasingly move into a materially post-scarcity developed world, time becomes the last scarce thing.
It overlaps with nostalgia, but there's also a big component of novelty/rarity. See previous example of tracking down that song that was written for the X-Files and playing in the background in a single bar scene.
Also, me blowing my friends' minds with a record I have of Richard Harris (now, "Dumbledore") reading selections from The Prophet: https://www.amazon.com/Kahlil-Gibran-Prophet-Musical-Interpr...