See, that's just hipster dumbness.

I bought a few records at thrift stores back in like '95. And they were 29 cents each. If you wanted like "a lot" of records they'd sell by the foot... I bought CDs that way but primarily because records were a pain in the ass.

I had some fancy-schmancy belt-driven somethingorother that I got from an audiophile, then the belt fried. Then I replaced the belt. Then it blew a cap. Then I fixed it. Then I had to get an RIAA preamp to interface it to my receiver, and that was made with pre-RoHS bits, and one of them blew and you could never get them again. And that was about 2004 and I said fuck records forever and you know what?

I don't miss them. not even a little bit.

Every time I'm at my father-in-law's house I look over their records. They've got some weird ones. Then I look them up on what.cd and I can pull down a FLAC in 2 minutes. Yeah, there's great physicality to media but I also like knowing all my weird shit is backed up on a hard drive that's also on a RAID server and slung into the cloud two different ways that can be ported around four places in my house and played back on every device I own.

Nostalgia? I've got a 5GB Firewire iPod. It came out on my birthday. And it's still got the playlists I built for my wife when we were dating. I'm good nostalgia-wise.