Analog or Digital and why?

Either way  no matter what, people will always say that digital sounds sooooo analog or that high res file sounds sooooo much like vinyl.  Analog formats will always be the baseline or reference for discussions like this.
Also in 30 years you look back and say to your grandkids, here ,you can have all these files or oops I don’t know where they went or you can say, pick out any records you want and then help me to EBay the rest
Oh wow this ones worth $500 now!  You will never say or experience this with a file of any kind.  
Enjoy the music Will-T

Chrismini, analog is not near as inconvenient if you know what you are doing. All I have to do to play a record is take it out of it's jacket and toss it on the table. The only difference between it and a CD is you have to flip it over. Then both have to go back into storage. I do not have or use any of that stuff you mention and my records are in like new condition. 

I can not speak for the younger crowd but those of us that have been at this for 50 years have analog material that never made it to CD or when it  did the music was tortured. On the other hand there are excellent high resolution digital downloads that are spectacular. The big problem with CDs back in the early 80's was the machines. They had not figured out how to do the filtering right resulting in butte awful sound quality. Early CDs played on modern machines do not sound near as bad.
I have records that sound better than any high res download. Many records do not sound as good. I do not have digital copies of most of my records and vise versa so it comes down to two things, what music I want to listen to and what I am doing at the time. If I am in the shop then I select one of my digital play lists which run for many hours. If I am just listening then it is only a choice of music not digital vs analog.
Obviously digital is way more flexible than analog particularly if it is on a hard drive. I have probably 100 instances where I have both analog and digital copies. I have A/Bed many of them and it can go either way. 
Looking through this thread it looks like most of us are in the "both" camp.
I can certainly understand why young people who have no history with records want to stick with digital. I think that most of us vinyl jockies have a thing for turntables, I know I have.

Douglas, what is a "chintziphile"?

I'm 60 so I grew up in the bad old days of vinyl records. No one took care of them or we would use a Discwasher which destroyed more records than it cleaned. Instead of coughing up $10 for a new stylus, guys would tape quarters to their headshells so it wouldn't fly across the record. Or turn up the anti-skate all the way up.(Like that's what it's for.) We didn't know any better. So when CD's hit the scene, wow! If you wanted to hear a certain song, you didn't have to drop the stylus as close as possible without spilling any beer. Oh those were glorious times. You could see the Grateful Dead for $7.

I have fallen into the audiophile curse of concentrating on the gear instead of what the gear is for: reproducing recorded music the most satisfying way we can. If you want to do MQA because that's what you like, then do it. I'm not going to but I grew up at a different times. This country was torn apart by the War in Vietnam. Jimi Hendrix was rocking. Jim Morrison too. Vinyl records cost $3.99. Everyone had an 8 Track in their vans. Oh man you want to talk about a hideous sounding medium. Done .