I had to laugh when thinking about this because I had a moment a few years ago that highlighted my techno-bias towards our modern luxuries. My wife's grandmother had an 80+ year old gramaphone in her house that I refused to believe worked because it didn't have a plug! lol While I realized how stupid I was as soon as it came out of my mouth, I was still stunned when we cranked it up (literally) and the thing absolutely filled the room with a ditty by Wilf Carter "The Yodelling Cowboy" (Johnny Cash's father in law) from the early 30's.
The fact that vinyl is not completely dead and is in fact in the middle of a little rebirth speaks to the need for people to have a "real" connection to their music. They need to have something to hold onto, something that has a physical presence not just taking up megabytes on their laptops. That being said, even though we still crank up the g-phone when new company comes over for the first time, my ipod and blackberry are chock full of MP3s. Even just being able to catch some streaming radio stations that I wouldn't be able to listen to normally is very cool. Nothing beats catching a band on a Seattle or San Fran station 6 months before anyone has heard of them.
Finally, cassettes just sucked. No technical evidence of this. I just hated them.
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