After hearing some songs so many times from an album, they don't sound the same without some bacon frying and pops in the background, not to mention some fidelity loss due to wear. :) Keep in mind that some of my albums are almost 50 years old.

Mmm... Becan!

DrLumen
After hearing some songs so many times from an album, they don't sound the same without some bacon frying and pops in the background, not to mention some fidelity loss due to wear. :) Keep in mind that some of my albums are almost 50 years old.

Ditto. I have an original Revolver LP (played hundreds of times in the past) with pops and clicks in it and whenever I play my recently-bought CD and there are no scratches, my mind fills in the missing info.

The other big difference:  Albums degrade with multiple plays, CD's don't.  When I was a DJ from '80 thru '83 we would always have to look across the top of an album to see if it was still black.  If it was gray, then that meant the grooves had been worn out and the album got tossed and replaced.
 
I went through multiple albums of certain favorites like Boston's first two albums, AC/DC's Back In Black, etc.

craigb
The other big difference:  Albums degrade with multiple plays, CD's don't.  

 
Depending how they're looked after of course, and how well the equipment used to play either is maintained.

Listened to some vinyl today while on the treadmill. Sounds pretty good and the treadmill noise masks pretty much all the vinyl noise! I might make a habit of it as I realized how much music I only have on LP (or cassettes, but...) and I don't really want to walk for the entire duration of a 60 or 70 minute CD. 
 
Today it was side 1 of Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness & Eternity Live
 

 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Nothingness_%26_Eternity
 
 
 

One for grins... with the "quarter pounder" rolling paper intact.
 

Hi,
 
Haven't played anything on my turntable in a couple of months ... now you got me going!
 
Still don't know what I want to hear!
 
Let's try this:
 
Popol Vuh - In the Pharaoh's Garden (recorded in the famous quad version the Germans had in those days)
 
Robert Schroeder - Floating Music (his 1st on Klaus Schulze's label IC ... and the album can be played in 33RPM AND 45RPM. Sounds heavy and teutonic crazy at 33RPM and somewhat p[op song'y at 45RPM. Still magnificent ... if you have never heard this! (Craig ... you got to hear this!)
 
Can't do that on a CD!!!!!