Why do hipsters prefer analog?

I love those photographs of twentysomething hipsters, in full regalia, on the patio of some cafe or whatever, listening to vinyl on a portable turntable.

That’s hilarious.  It conjures David Attenborough: 

“The hipster congregates in cafes, where his public display of extremely inconvenient but socially advantageous music-listening signals his credentials.  Yes, the hipster could experience far superior audio fidelity through technology of vastly cheaper, vastly more convenient means, and could indeed reserve the turntable for more convenient at-home listening, but then there would be no one there to observe him doing so…”

@mrteeves That’s when I started buying records also.  Circa ‘05.  This was the all-time nadir of vinyl sales.  Man alive, if I knew then what I know now. 
I would walk out of record stores in Seattle with 10 LPs in my bag, each one for about $1.  Even with my vast uptick in finicky-ness and extensive purging of sub-par pressings for the past 5-odd years, I still have some of those great-sounding pressings I got for $1.  They would command 20x-30x the price now. 

Jeep

Reminds me of a line from the BBC program Life on Mars -  "So you drive a military vehicle".

 

Oz:

This the only bunboy I've ever cared for (visited a few times while traveling from LA to Las Vegas) but unfortunately it's now history.

It was located next to the world's tallest thermometer (which hopefully survived) in in Baker, CA.

DeKay

rdk777

Next - why did the hipster cross the road?

To get to the other side where the new audio store is.