it reminded me of what it used to be like. He could listen to Micheal Jackson on Spotify, sure, but he was stoked to make his mom come listen to it on a record player. Seeing him check out different covers, reading random liner notes or lyrics. That shit brought back memories.

Random stuff like too like seeing what an Ohio Players LP cover looks like. Ohio Players had some of the wildest album covers out.

I don't hate digital, but there are definitely some tradeoffs and you give up some really good stuff in that tradeoff.

Also - i worked at a 2nd hand record store for a few years in the late 90's early 2000's. We had like a 1000 copies of Green Day's Dookie album. Crackheads and heroin addicts would get pissed when they'd steal a copy from Tower Records and half the time we wouldn't even buy it from them.