Anybody know where to score a copy of the 2016 Eli and the thirteenth Confession SACD?

Nah it's okay, I am fascinated by the time period and the development that has followed. Like I cannot imagine having to buy a record and not having much options for portable music except a portable radio. Having to listen to music only on Mono is also something that I could only imagine or say being limited to watch the shows on tv or movie theaters, no on demand streaming. But some say that mono has this warmth and that Vinyl has this quality, but I have yet to experience it.

emarei -- I agree.  Mono doesn't do it for me. I lived through several years of the pre-stereo era.  I was gobsmacked the day my dad brought home a stereo to replace his mono rig.  Was it 1958? 1960?  A whole new, wonderful world.  I have no shortage of pre-stereo monophonic LPs on my record shelf, either.  Some were dad & mom's.  Some were scored by me and my older sister.  True, there are exceptions, such as several 1950's Sinatra discs (and we mustn't forget the Herman's Hermits LP!), but in the main I just don't listen to 'em.  Call me a tasteless pseudophile.

I wouldn't know with certainty but would one day love to actually hear something on vinyl or actually use a turntable, wanna see what the hype is about. But there is this depth that stereo adds but when a song has a singer on the foreground, I feel like mono does the job. But I mostly focus on the instruments and then the singer, it takes me a few listens to get the whole picture. Also you must have a pretty huge collection then, and no I wouldn't really call you that, it seems that you have been around and seen what works and what doesn't, you have like way more knowledge that I could imagine of as of right now.