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# Why we still buy records
- URL: https://marlowe.ghost-themes.apps.codememory.com/why-we-still-buy-records/
- Published: 2026-08-28T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-28T08:00:00.000Z
- Description: Crackle, sleeve notes and the ritual of choosing one album.
- Author: Julian Hart
- Tags: Culture, #Import 2026-09-30 03:09

Streaming gives you every album. A record shop makes you choose one.

That choice is the point. You carry it home, read the sleeve notes, and listen to the whole thing because you picked it.

## The ritual

Side A, turn it over, side B. It is a small ceremony, and it makes music an event again.

The crackle is part of it too.