One of the great things about Vinyl

Everything about vinyl is fun.

Browsing them, buying them, looking at them, playing them, it's all fun.  

I know some will say the inconveniences outweigh the positives (or at least cancel them out) which I can appreciate.  Of course there will then be technical criticisms of the medium. I can appreciate those as well.

I think all would agree that handling/playing CDs, and scrolling through endless, homogenized letters on a screen has nothing on handling a beautiful sleeve, hearing the sound of the stylus hit the lead-in groove, and watching that handsome turntable, with it's shiny black disc, put a show on for you in your living room. The romance is rich with the latter; non-existent with the former. 

"Fun of use" is no contest.

In regards to those endless, homogenized letters on a screen I scroll through, I find the homogenization of music this way robs the individual works of their individuality.  Miles Davis may sit between Minutemen and Mickey Newbury...scroll, scroll, ho-hum..it's all the same..."files"...

Obviously they are not remotely the same. Furthermore, each individual album in an artist's catalog has its own identity.  These things are diminished in a digital format, and maximized in the vinyl format.

I want to appreciate the uniqueness of artists and their individual works from their catalog.

Music is very special, meaningful and important to me, not just another utilitarian application, appliance, another "app," another bunch of "files." 

"Had I been streaming I may have not taken the time to listen beyond one or two cuts. "

Does this make any sense?

All things being equal. Why would the fact that the music is streamed have an effect on how many tracks you listen to? 

Is it that playing vinyl or a cd requires you to get up out of your comfy seat to change albums? Whereas, with streaming you can just sit on your duff and jump from song to song.

Next time you stream, pick an album, put your iPad in the next room and then sit down to listen. 

@edcyn 

"You must lift the vinyl off of the platter, taking into account the sometimes goodly amount of static electricity that has built up between the vinyl and the platter in the meantime."

This used to make my hair stand on end.  It wasn't until I lost (most of) my hair that I realized how important this was in my life.  I moved on to digital.

One of the great things about vinyl……is not having it!

It’s easy to listen all the way to the end of side on an lp.  The timings are short.