1994 — Raphael Samuel, Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture, Verso (1996), →ISBN, page 291:
Nevertheless, among property owners, to judge by a stream of attacks on 'retrophilia' in the quality press, there is a rising tide of complaint about heritage officers — a bunch of crazed aesthetes, as they sometimes appear, attempting to regulate the shape of the last corbel; […]
The upside of this raw deal, though, is that she's now in a position to cash in on the retrophilia that currently pervades pop culture — in the way that '70s icons from Barry White to Meat Loaf have in recent years.
2000 — Arion Berger, "Supergrass", Entertainment Weekly, 10 April 2000:
The trio rejects the loutishness and retrophilia of its colleagues; […]
2003 — Martin Livings, "Sigmund Freud and the Feral Freeway", in Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction (ed. Cat Sparks), Agog! Press (2006), →ISBN, page 134:
The tinkertoys were the direct result of humanity's obsession with the past, a hysterical retrophilia which blinded the general public to the present.
And though the band's high-pitched vocals and modern twist on prog warrant obvious comparisons to like-minded acts such as The Mars Volta and Circa Survive, PTM's sound stands apart, thanks to a distinctly boogie-rock feel that layers the music with the aroma of the 1970s but never veers into overt retrophilia.
At the same time, a wave of retrophilia started to crest. Clothing companies like Homage (which reproduces vintage-esque T's celebrating sports and pop culture from the '70s through the '90s) came up with unique ways to commercialize the interest in yesteryear.