It's really no more nonsense than lo-fi tracks having rain sounds in the background or hiphop producers running old school beats through a 12-bit sampler to cru

It's really no more nonsense than lo-fi tracks having rain sounds in the background or hiphop producers running old school beats through a 12-bit sampler to crush it up a bit. Producers use a ton of subtle tricks to make you unknowingly enjoy their work more with a touch of nostalgia. My Roland sampler has a "simulate vinyl" effect that's trying to do the same as this product, but in software.