How do you respond to this question?

If you don't listen to LPs they just sit there. You can look at them of course, and, unfortunately, people make them into bowls (really ugly and sad bowls…saw 'em at a craft fair) or coasters. If the LP is extremely damaged I suppose a coaster is OK…still…sad…

I play vinyl because it sounds better, so much so that the designer of the best digital system I've heard once said to me 'Digital has such a long way to go...".

The best LPs push similar dynamic range and nearly all LPs have greater bandwidth than digital. I run an LP mastering operation BTW.

The flaws of vinyl are less offensive then the silver (mini) frisbee!!!

06-30-15: Schubert
My analogue brain seems to prefer sine-waves over dit-dots.

Yup. Same for me. I get about the same emotional response to vinyl as I do to live music. I seldom get an emotional lift from digital sources.

It sounds mo' better than the other formats out there.