> This isn't a Vinyl vs CD thing where a clearly inferior technology lives on due mainly to sentimental reasons.

"Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don’t Have a Record Player, New Study Shows":

* https://consequence.net/2023/04/half-vinyl-buyers-record-pla...

Seems that people are buying records not to listen to, but to use an 'art object', or other type of artefact to publicly show their like and support of the artist(s) in question.

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hshdhdhj4444 2 hours ago | parent [-]

A lot of people buy vinyls for the albums art.

	▲	kQq9oHeAz6wLLS an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'd say buy a poster instead, but it just now occurs to me that they're likely not displaying them full-time, and the LP has the advantages of being a uniform size and made of stiff cardboard for easy storage and retrieval. So I guess it actually makes sense.