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Music on vinyl doesn't make sense
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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Just like shooting your photos on film, running your amp on tubes, or traipsing through the woods in the dark with an incandescent bulb flashlight, music on vinyl in this age is just hipsterism. There's nothing wrong with that per se, if that's what you're into, and this is coming from someone who nearly exclusively writes with a fountain pen because of hipsterism (an opinion that did not make me popular on the fountain pen community recently). But at minimum people who do it ought to be honest about it.
Retro is cool and people want to feel cool by being retro and/or bucking the mainstream. Being "better" somehow doesn't enter into it, and claiming otherwise is inherently disingenuous.
History is littered with formats that were contemporary to LP records that people don't go all starry eyed over, other than occasionally for historical interest. Compact cassettes and eight tracks leap to mind.
I don't agree with you that being hipster is the only good reason for it.
There are many benefits with physical and DRM-free media.
I just posted another comment on this post making my point though 😄
Compact disc, compact casettes, eight track, even reel-to-reel tape are also all DRM free physical media formats for the same type of content, too. And yet, there is no CD renaissance happening. Nobody is making daily posts of their cassette deck showing off the album art on the tape case propped against their stereo.
Maybe in another 10 or 20 years there will indeed be a CD renaissance, if it becomes retro enough to be fashionable. It's already happening with video games (says the turkey with two entire bookcases full of old cartridges and disks).
If somebody likes vinyl records I'm certainly not going to stop them. Even if they like them for spurious reasons.
CDs are making a comeback already!
Albeit not as big as vinyl yet, but it might catch up given time!
A couple of months ago I overheard a couple guys in their early 20s who were happy for finding some specific CD in a local record store.
It's not necessarily hipsterism - it can be, but isn't automatically.
Do you use a fountain pen for the image you present to the world, or because you genuinely like the experience of using one?
I used one a long time ago because I liked the way it wrote, and the technology had improved to where using one wasn't an inconvenience.
I can understand someone wanting to use a modern incandescent flashlight for it's color - all my good led flashlights use a similar color.
I can appreciate listening to vinyl as it's a different experience (one which I'm very familiar with as I had a massive collection before CD's existed).
All of these things can be done for "hipsterism" (i.e. Presenting an image) or because someone genuinely appreciates certain attributes of a thing.