Why we still buy records
Crackle, sleeve notes and the ritual of choosing one album.
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.
