Are vinyl hipsters a cancer on the earth?

>signal degradation pipeline

Physical media will never die as long as Japan exists because they cannot into streaming or Internet.

Digital solid-state is technically superior, since transparent DACs have been thing for years. Of course you need proper amplification for that (at least in minimum you don't want to have interference/hiss like you can get from cheaper mobo audio outs), but then again you really need to invest money into your record player setup too: decent player, possibly need cartridge replacement, possible preamp, and then the amp etc you'd need with digital too. Not to mention, analog audio is more fiddly than digital which either works or doesn't work, since there are more variables in the chain that affects the quality. And you still have to rip those analog records to digital format if you want to listen them on your phone. Only thing that comes to my mind on the top of my head is that on CDs they can compress the dynamic range during the mastering to get more loud record, while the vinyls are usually mastered differently.
Still, people are still going to use vinyl records as long as they're available, same goes for old consoles, computers, cars etc. They're not used and collected because they're technically superior, it's because those are collectibles. And some people will prefer owning things they actually can touch, unlike just buying digital album.

>Ask a 12 year old if he has any interest in owning physical media for security or sentimental reasons.
If you asked me back when I was 12, I would answer you the same way. But when you are 12, you are retarded little shit with rezarded opinions.

Why is that? Genuinely curious.

Music is made in Ableton, Protools, or whatever they're using there, what even is the point of putting wavs on a vinyl.

I'm not as autistic as Prince was regarding physical media, but do you really think in 30 years that 12 year olds are going to dig through their parents' attic and find the records they had when they were 12? How could they when their music was saved on a iPhone that probably got long since ground up by a recycler? I mean, who doesn't like looking at their parents' old record collection? It says a lot about who they were as kids.

^This. Who takes a 12 year old's opinions seriously?

You don't even need it anymore on retro PCs.

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Vinyls are a collector's item, first and foremost.