I'm now on my 4th collection, for my sins having had to sell the previous accumulations for varying reasons inclusive of the steel strike (late 70's) to the latter domestic indifferences (2000) when I vowed never to collect again! I kept a token bundle of Motown pieces, just for the sake/keepsake........but I got the fertilizer bug again and the bundle grew and grew......Yep the mini LP's, acetates etc. just so I could keep trawling through the old record boxes at varying haunts. It soon became the numbers game, and as the wants lists grew smaller I branched out into the subsidiaries, which also got to the numbers thing, so decided to do all the labels swallowed up by the Mighty Motown Machine, you know the Ric-Tic/Golden World stuff, then the Revilot's and Wingates, then I realised that a lot of the subsidiaries in particular also released dirge, so it proved to be somewhat of a wake-up call, and whilst quite a lot of the pieces I'd been hoarding weren't valuable as such, trainspotting was never something I could see the point of, so apart from the main Motown collection.... errm and perhaps a few worthwhile collectable labels, the numbers game has been curtailed, duplicates (i.e. issues and demos) apart from the odd one or two are now a thing of the past, unless I duplicate through unawares, and I do......I just collect Detroit now, oh and anything produced there, so please don't mention Philadelphia, Chicago, New York etc. etc. my tunnel vision glasses are still working .......it's just my ears giving me jip