What is it about spinning vinyl?


I just turned the system off several minutes ago. I had been listening to a great, high res file of Tower of Power, best horn section ever. As many know I have been sans turntable for 8 months. I sold my old one and ordered a new one but you know the story. Covid delays. It is under construction now.  Anyway, as I turned the system off I got this real urge to play a record. The wizard inside did not feel like turning the computer back on. It wanted a record. Grumpy, I decided to hit the sack. 
Think about that. I have a terabyte and a half of digital files sitting there in a hard drive.  Everything from Bach to Captain Beefheart. It had to be a record. No record, bedtime. It was not about the music. It was about the mechanical act of playing a record. I've been doing it since I was four years old. My dad got me a Zenith portable for my fourth birthday. You know, with the black cobra tonearm complete with eyes! Is it just repetitive behavior. Perhaps there is some sort of psychological explanation. Happy associations? Platter hypnosis? Maybe it is that we get emotionally attached to certain behaviors. 
mijostyn

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The LP ritual is one of the few things lin ife that ISN'T cancerous, offensive to someone else and lowers my blood pressure without undesirable side effects.

I left a stack albums on the corner of my block last night for someone else to enjoy. My double/triple copies that didn't make my STAMPER cut.

Hopefully someone will actually enjoy them, but likely a homeless person picked them up and will try to cash them in at my neighborhood store.
They will be sadly disappointed when they are told 50 cents each!