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Answerman - How Can I Get Anime Soundtracks on Vinyl?

looking at and reading the album contents was certainly different than buying and downloading a few tunes today.

but vinyl just introduces too much distortion and pops and crackles to be taken seriously by pros

Not to worry, I was born pre-digital and have embraced digital music and photography wholeheartedly. I don't miss the past.

I have to wonder if the people chasing vinyl editions would love them so much if they had to tape a nickel to their tone arm just so their favorite song would play without skipping. I took care of my albums with loving care and they still ended up scratched and warped. When the digital age hit, I tossed all 600 some of my albums and never looked back.

I also worked in a secondhand store where there was one incident of someone removing the diamond tips off of all if the record players (presumably to attempt to sell them off as precious gems). I don't know if that would be an issue to some people though, where if you try to buy a used record player that the diamond tip would wind up missing.

I grew up in the era of magnetic tape, and by the time I was old enough to understand how playing music works, my parents had already replaced most of their vinyl collection with cassette tapes, and in turn I witnessed them replacing much (but not nearly all of them) with CDs. That means vinyl was before my time, so I really don't understand it much. I don't even know how to start a record player, as I can't find on/off switches on them. The people I've met who are into vinyl seem to be about my age or younger though, which fits into the pattern of what I'm seeing on this topic, being that the people who dislike vinyl the most are the people who actually lived through the vinyl age.

I wonder if those who are getting back into vinyl treat more as a hobby than a necessity. Maybe they'll only using the vinyl playing as a treat and use more care with each and every record because they know how fragile the things are, but out of resourcefulness, they still have digital resources for pretty much all music, and there's no reason to play a record to wrapped death.

That's useless as the "diamond stylus" was industrial grade, and later man made so, besides being virtually microscopic in size, only good for use as a stylus and worthless otherwise.

I never said I disliked vinyl in fact I still charish my collection some of which would fetch more than what I paid for them at auction. I can tell the difference between anologue and digital music just by playing the same tune with both. The anologue sound has much more depth, range, and warmth. We are anologue creatures afterall. Digital just can't reproduce the same thing as it gets lost in translation.

I think some of the young vinyl fans actually like the graininess and distortion that comes with worn-down vinyl records. I visited a Fry's Electronics and saw a device on display that can play this new music format that supposedly recreates that.

Or are you referring to the transient nature of an individual record that wears out the more you play it? If that is the case they should take up 8 track tapes. Those tended to self destruct in the first dozen or so plays. Even more so in car players where they were being bounced around while being played.