I bought a really nice stereo system in 1987 which REALLY demonstrated how bad vinyl records sounded compared to CD's. The very next week I sold my collection of over 2,000 records and began acquiring CD's like nobody's business! I must admit that I don't miss any part of them: The handling, flattening, melting, cleaning, clicks, pops, covers, sleeves, SHORT play (per side), etc. Even when I had a turntable capable of stacking up to five albums, it still seemed to go through them too quick and, obviously, you didn't hear each album in its entirety before going to the next but rather half of each before flipping the stack and hearing the other half. Back then I used to record the entire album onto a cassette tape and play that instead. I really like being able to shuffle play thousands of songs now and not have to monitor the process!