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by defrost 12 days ago
> Sorry but vinyls don't offer anything but nostalgia

That's simply incorrect on the face of it, as others have pointed out vinyls offers a curated physical object per clump of music tracks.

Maybe that's not for you, which is fine; but for a number of people, young people today and older people that grew up with records that's a different way of engaging with the media and the artists presentation of media than a faceless, artless, beige device on shuffle.

A large physical album cover with artwork, lyrics, details, etc. is something that some people just like - and was liked even in the days when there was no nostalgia attached to the packaging.

Yoto has a market for children because it has a device driven by physical cards.

~ https://yotoplay.com/

Yeah, I've got an original metal tin from a 1968 purchase as a child: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake#Desig...