I started buying records about 10 years ago, so I could get catalog items on the cheap. Led Zeppelin III with the spinny cover for 4 bucks, etc. Well since then things is changed ... I doubt I could find that record for less than 10, probably more like 15 bucks.

But I never buy CDs anymore. If I like something, I buy the record. The nature of digitized music is such that it's kind of valueless, the physical object, as the information on it is 100% transferrable. Vinyl is somewhat discrete, on the other hand, and that's why I like it. Plus I find I get more into the music when I put a record on, as opposed to ADD flipping through iTunes.

It's ironic that the CD/digital format that was pushed so hard by the music industry back in the day - "everybody needs to rebuild their music libraries now!" - ultimately proved to be the industry's undoing.