Its awesome to not only see the album art (inside fold art and backside art, not just cover) but all the extras that come with it, really give you a sense of what the artist intended.
Posters, notes, the colour of the vinyl. Even stuff like the vinyl having a locked groove and playing on repeat at the end or there being no side a or b label, implying it can be listened to in any order, can change the listening experience.
Ive had vinyls with pennies crushed by train tracks included, graphs that break down the buildups of songs. It can completely transform the experience. Looking at all the art can shift the meaning of songs.
Where the vinyl sides end and you have to switch it are deliberate breaks and groups of songs that change the listening experience.
Not to mention the hiss and the mindfulness of sitting back and putting a vinyl on. The finality of owning a physical copy of your music, that can’t be changed or taken from you.
To me, you get the album’s full creative vision, grest sound quality most of the time. Nice display pieces.
CD’s are better in every single way
Ohhh noooo you can’t hang up the big square picture on your wall?? 😭
I feel like buying cds these days sucks. The sound quality is usually cheap, so youre betting off burning your own, and 90% of the time you get a super cheap cardboard casing instead of a real case now
I collect both, and cassettes, but all for completely different reasons. I don't have an interest of having a cd player in my home for instance