I would love to know how much of the vinyls sold today are bought to be played or have been played more than once. No one buy a compact disc today for displaying it to guests in pair with coffee table books.

I recently discovered and fell in love with vinyl music and definitely play the albums I buy.

Playing music without interacting with a phone is wonderful.

The people I know who go out and buy vinyl today are the people who I used to go to concerts with, had a lot of CDs and were the same people who were early adopters of streaming. Basically, the people who actually really like music!

There's something about the connection between people you get with physical media as well, beyond just the "playing it for other people" effect in the article. - I have a collection of a few hundred records I've mostly inherited from my Dad, my Uncle and a few of my Dad's friends who were getting rid. It's a very lovely experience to pull a record out at semi-random and try to work out who's collection it came from and when and why they might have bought the object I'm listening to that day.