One of the great things about Vinyl

@mijostyn 
“There are bad albums that might have one good song. I will download the one good song and put it in one of my background play lists.”

This👆
A totally sensible way to procure and enjoy music with both formats.

Vinyl is so more engaging than digital on many levels. I listen to vinyl far more than CDs or streaming. It just sounds better.

Occasionally, rarely a song or two starts I can't stand, so I will get up and manually cue the arm to bypass it. Easy if it is the last or first song on a side.

As far as @edcyn 's comments:

You gotta stumble over to the turntable. Lift the often balky turntable cover, making sure that it doesn't go crashing down if you don't do it right. Keep the dustcover off, it adds distortion unless it is has no hinges, and then will be a challenge to cover the table easily without dealing with wires

You gotta lift the arm and move it back to its rest. Get a cuing device (like a Tru-Lift) in case you can't get right over to the table to lift the arm when the record is done. Makes handling the arm easier when you move it back to rest as well.

You gotta turn the record player off. No you don't - just be careful when changing sides or records. Turn it on once per listening session and switch from 33 to 45 and back as needed.

You gotta unscrew the record clamp and safely stow it away. Don't use a clamp unless it is a warped record.

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. Put your system in a room without carpet.

You forgot about brushing the dust off the record before you drop the stylus, and getting the record off the shelf, removing the jacket from the protective vinyl sleeve, and taking the inner rice paper sleeve out of the jacket and replacing them when you're done.

It sounds like a lot, but well worth it!

If you list out the mundane tasks of ANY ritual - whether by religion or for pleasure - it looks so unjustifiably tedious, that any uninitiated observer would surely exclaim "WHY would they do this?!".

You either derive joy from the ritual and its byproducts, or you don’t do it. If it’s joyful then the prerequisite work doesn't weight heavily. I’m sure digital enthusiasts look at us like we have 2 heads lol.

I'm certain I've mentioned this a dozen times, but I'm retired. I now live in a small town that doesn't have a lot of places to hang out in so I have plenty of time to indulge in stereo listening. The views out my stereo room windows are fabulous, and the glass windows don't upset the imaging particularly much. I don't find the rituals involved in high-end listening onerous in the slightest. Just type cast me as the cheerful old audiophile!