What is it about spinning vinyl?

@whart , There was a record with vertigo swirls on the label. I want to say Strawberry Alarm Clock but I'm not sure.

edgewear, I think Zappa was referring to music, always going round to the same place vs a linear progression but what do I know?

hilde45, probably right but I would modify that to say a deeply routed enjoyable habit vs a self destructive one? Is being and audiophile self destructive? I think it is a safe place to put our quest for stimulus variation. Financially self destructive? I suppose if you haven't the money.
It's not like I refused to get my kids braces or send them to school. It may have supplanted a vacation of two. 

I do know that I love paging through my records much more than running down a list of files. I love paging through records anywhere. We have a local record store which I'll visit when I have a free moment just to flip through the record bins. So, maybe it is a derivation of the record collecting bug. Collecting files is not the same. You only get music, which is fine as far as the music goes. When I want to listen to a piece I'll happily go to whatever format it's in. It is not really a "collection" as there are no physical attributes. 

notnow0329, I never looked at it as being a PITA. It is a ritual. To me it is like shifting a car. Don't have to think about it. Totally automatic. It just happens. 

@lewm, get with it! None of us smoke anymore. We get gummies or drops;-)

The LP ritual is one of the few things lin ife that ISN'T cancerous, offensive to someone else and lowers my blood pressure without undesirable side effects.

I left a stack albums on the corner of my block last night for someone else to enjoy. My double/triple copies that didn't make my STAMPER cut.

Hopefully someone will actually enjoy them, but likely a homeless person picked them up and will try to cash them in at my neighborhood store.
They will be sadly disappointed when they are told 50 cents each!

I got this real urge to play a record. The wizard inside did not feel like turning the computer back on. It wanted a record. Grumpy, I decided to hit the sack.
Think about that. I have a terabyte and a half of digital files sitting there in a hard drive. Everything from Bach to Captain Beefheart. It had to be a record. No record, bedtime. It was not about the music.

You have just explained how digital converts music to a commodity, while playing an LP has you present to the music.

@mijostyn,
Zappa may well have suspected that the idea of linear progression is an illusion as well as a mentality that has wreaked havoc on the planet. But what do I know?

Ben Watson, the British scholar who wrote 'The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play' about Zappa's music, proposes that 'boring' might also be interpreted as 'piercing', 'probing' or 'drilling'. Perhaps too far fetched, but it certainly puts another 'spin' on it. It's a vicious circle, you got it?