It’s a cycle
I assume people buy Vinyls of their favourite artists as a kind of poster (which also physically contains the music)… not to actually listen to it.
I am pretty sure this meme was made wrong on purpose for algorithm reasons by someone trying to drive more traffic to their page. Nothing like baiting people into correcting you in order to increase engagement.
Cassette tapes are also sort of coming back. There are modern ones are both USB compatible and compatible with old cassette players. They exist mostly for the market of people who own old cars that don’t have modern radios.
Where’s the mini disc???
One genuine point owed to retro hipster music formats though: you can’t DRM them.
I’m sure you could come up with a way of recording binary code on the vinyl that could only be played back as music with the proper encryption key.
