Pros of Vinyl for me: It takes me back to physically interacting with music. This sounds like a simple thing, but I feel it is huge in the sense of unlimited resources devalue something. You value something more you physically own and can touch. The argument of sound is better is only like 20% the reason for me... Siamese Dream for example has a special mix just for Vinyl and I really appreciated that.
Owning something on Vinyl for me means I next to worship the album. I hang the album on my wall and pay homage to it... hehe.
Cons of Vinyl:
The care for vinyl is the most extensive than any other format. It gets dust in the grooves... if you let it sit on a shelf for too long in bad conditions the vinyl will change form and possibly even ruin it (My brother did this to a very good copy of Scheherazade and he didn't know it ruined it until I listened to it and the first movement was totally ruined on both sides).
It's more expensive (somehow I was duped into paying $5 for a used CD to $20 for new vinyl in just 10 years time)... actually not somehow...
The reason why vinyl is more expensive is unless you have a really good record store nearby, 90% (random number) of the music you want to buy is not available on used vinyl... or sometimes on vinyl at all for that matter... or like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness it is like $100 for that album on vinyl. I love that album... but no way in hell am I that stupid.
I am sending myself to hell and got Spotify premium. It's been really helpful to create playlists per decade to help me re-evaluate my previous musical prejudices and to explore new music. I'd say about 90% of what I want to listen to is on Spotify. As much as I hate them for making musicians life a living hell, the other way I'd be listening to 600 albums in 2.5 months is by "stealing" it and that's not any better.
Then when I find a record I absolutely love, I try and buy it new now on vinyl as opposed to used in the hopes that the artist gets more than 0.000005 cents a listen.
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