I can't quite agree to the title of this thread - I have a nostalgic fondness for LP's. There was a romance there too. It started with going through my shelves for a particular album. Then I would pull it out of it's plastic sleeve ( I always stored each album in it;s own protective sleeve so that the cover would not get so worn). Then the record was removed from the cover and it's paper sleeve and placed on the turntable where it was cleaned with the staticmaster. Then the stylus was cleaned with a size 00 camel hair paint brush. Then the tonearm was carefully lowered onto the record. I would then sit on the sofa, dead nuts in the stereo sweet spot, and listen, perhaps while reading the album cover and liner notes. I miss that ritual of listening to music these days. Some of that ritual sounds like a pain in the ass I know, but there was a reverential meticulousness to it that attached me to the process. The part I miss especially is reading the liner notes while listening - I find the print so small on most CDs that I have to have the lights turned up full and need my reading glasses, both of which detract from the listening ambiance. Even worse is that a significant percentage of my music collection these days is downloaded and doesn't even have liner notes. (Of course I could read artist info from my kindle or ipad). But still it's just not the same. Oops, gotta go now - load up my ipod and go for a bike ride with my dr dre's.