>Actually thinking the sound-altering distortion of vinyl/cassette is good >Paying extra for a format that has less dynamic range >I myself can record up to a 32 bit float depth at 20kHz,which is the limit of human hearing >I'm able to do all that with free software >I get to store all my music digitally and can copy all of it to a series of CDs if need be >I can e-mail people entire discographies >Digital is the future >Militant analog supporters are snobby and stuck in the past The only reason I would ever buy into analog is when an album isn't available any other way, and even then I'd rip it to digital and have the physical copy resold at a profit for my happy merchant self.