Is there a physical and ritual connection with the analog LP?

Of course this makes sense!
I have been a digital guy all my life, just by generation, not by choice I suppose. I recently purchased what I call my "mid-life" crisis stereo. All analog, all tubes. I’ve wanted something like this for 20 years.

I fell in love with tubes about 15-20 years ago, I am a guitar player, mostly acoustic, but when I heard a tube amp for the first time my ears were like "Hello Clarice..." Love at first listen. I finally got a stereo and It’s been a rough 5 months adapting to vinyl and I have phono stage issues, but I have met great people along the way and all I can say is this.

Vinyl is a bitch, no question about it. She demands your time and your attention, I really liken it to a beautiful women. You have to bring the best out of it for it to shine, and its not cheap. But when it is on point, WOW there is no substitute...the tangibility can’t be beat!

I’d opine an ugly woman requires more work than a beautiful woman. You know, like digital. 

Not at all geoff. Ugly women are much easier to ignore. You don't have to deal with the erection.....if you are younger than 50. 
Most of this is probably a fondness for tradition a tradition that younger folks born after 1985 or so do not have unless their parents were heavily into vinyl. Then again my kids are heavily into music but they could care less about records. Like the entire generation all their music is on their phones. The biggest differences from a usability perspective is that you have to get up and flip or change the music every 20 minutes (Love my auto lift!) and you can't make playlists. Some people go way over the top and do stuff like machine clean the record before every play. Others have no yet figured out how to manage their records in terms of static and dust and remain overwhelmed by that problem. As far as I am concerned playing a record is not a whole lot more time consuming than playing a CD. I think I might even waste more time waiting for the CD drawer to open than I do loading a record.

Oh, you mean like beautiful women ignore you? 🤗