For me at least, the main appeal of vinyl records is that they are physical artifacts, tactile and cozy/nostalgic. I enjoy the physicality, the large cover art

For me at least, the main appeal of vinyl records is that they are physical artifacts, tactile and cozy/nostalgic. I enjoy the physicality, the large cover art and the little rituals. It also forces me to listen to entire albums in order, instead of just shuffling random tracks. The sound quality is somewhere between "good enough" and "genuinely good", no match for good digital formats, but certainly good enough to get lost in the music and enjoy it. And my turntable cost around $100 second hand, nothing too fancy. I mostly buy rock and metal from the 70s and 80s, second hand. The only new records I buy are from bands that could easily fool people into thinking they are actually from back then, like Visigoth and Smoulder, old-school heavy metal. It just feels like vinyl is the right format for it.