...is all this is. It's a fad, phase call it what you like. I am now 43 and was 16 in the late eighties. CD's were just a fad back then and were way more expensive than records, but I was still buying them. Why? Because they were new, my parents didn't understand them and the marketing world told us they sounded better. I wasn't listening to music like mum and dad listened to music. I was different. I was of my generation and my generation was doing it and hearing it better.
Fast forward 20 years and many of us spotty teenage pioneers of the digital age are now churning out our own crop of youths. Our kids see us oldies with our collections of 1000's of CD's gathered over a couple of decades of which we are so proud, and they think no thanks to that. That is definitely not so cool. So they buy records, which are different, which are their thing and which interestingly the marketing machine say sound better. Which they don't. Come 2040 when CD's are all but extinct you can bet that our kids kids will bring them back.
Unfortunately for my kids I have a wide collection of both records and CD's, so they are fu@ked.