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Why can't you do that EACT same experience on spotify? You realize you can pick a specific album and play it in order correct? The only difference between the two is that with spotify you have options if you lack the self control to go for the experience you are suggesting.

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Deliberate restriction is the point of still using a lot of analog media. You can't pop open another app on your book, you can't look at the photo you just took on film, and you can't easily skip a song on a record.

I find that hard to do myself. Spotify doesn't appear to have the same sequence as the LPs or even CDs. Another problem is finding original recordings on Spotify, mostly you find remasterings.

Of course, none of these matter if you just want to listen to music.

I can probably also recreate a grill burger in a microwave, even complete with burn marks somehow. But the real thing is inexpensive and easy to use, so why should I jump through the hoops? Also I have to wonder how long Spotify is going to exist or carry the albums I like. I can still play records made in the 80s with no issues.

Never been able to read the liner notes to each other and admire the photos in the interior of the album cover together on Spotify.

If digital liner notes were commonplace, you could at least look at them together on a tablet, even if that might still not be exactly the same thing.

As it is you can't really read the liner notes and admire any photos alone, either, unless you're hunting them down on Discogs or somewhere else, never mind together with somebody else, too.

The iTunes store in theory allows including a PDF booklet together with album purchases, but in practice it seems that albums that actually do include such a thing are almost as rare as hens' teeth.

Why can’t I resist the chocolate in the cupboard?

vinyl is like deciding not to buy the chocolate in the first place.

You need to be on the distraction machine (your laptop), inside the distraction amplifier (your browser) on a very distracting site. Similar it using the app or a phone.

The turntable can work with a literal digital detox (it is analog).

“You realise you can…”

Just admit that you don’t yet understand the other perspective. Resorting to this sort of snark really isn’t in service of reaching a shared understanding.

Often times we just try to prove that the other person's taste/preference does not make sense.

However that is a fool's errand: you can't convince me that I don't like chocolate, for example. I do!

True, most people doesn't find meaning in using vinyl records, others. Why do we have to prove that either of them is right/wrong?

Trying to understand the other's perspective is the way to go, if you care about getting closer to the truth.

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