Kern wrote:
A compact disc is a better physical format than a vinyl LP.
It's smaller, you don't need to get up every 20 minutes, and uses actual lasers!
True, but the artwork has suffered because of the small size of the packaging. Album covers used to be works of art and you didn't need a magnifying glass to be able to read the lyrics, etc.
Having said that, the advent of digital formats like MP3, WAV, AIFF, AU, etc. allow you to carry your whole record collection around with you so you can listen to it anywhere, making vinyl/cd formats pretty much irrelevant.
There's the argument that digital sound quality isn't as good as analogue, but even if this is true, at my age my hearing is no longer really good enough to tell the difference. I've got big vinyl, CD, MiniDisc and cassette collections and I don't want to get rid of them, but I rarely use any of them these days.