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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think almost no connection between vinyl and paper desires [...] The only advantage of vinyl over a CD is the larger artwork size for the sleeve.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Why people prefer a medium that starts out noisy and gets worse with each use is beyond me (not counting DJs for manipulation purposes).
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Well, a stretchy parallel can be conceded, even when all in favour of the importance of paper as an option (with respect to the importance of vinyl as an option). As in: "Reasons could be found to buy vinyl-based records, even more for buying paper-based books". What I could quickly find were, as written, preferring having an owned item of polished craft and particular experience, and its selection within a rich collection during purchase.
(Incidentally: the advantage of vinyl over digital was said by purists to be the sound quality. It is probably not there anymore if the vinyl recorded a digital studio production (a not impossible to suppose perversion - sampling analogue then recording back on analogue), but that is different from the analogue recording of a performance, as it was in the past. It (the sound quality delta) may jump back prominently even to the untrained ears, if the average experience is that of compressed audio. Anyway.)