This seems to be conflating nostalgia with performance characteristics, isn't it?
For example, CDs are listed preferable to vinyl because the sound quality is better. That's not my understanding of how nostalgia works. People who grew up with vinyl records may be nostalgic for them not because they're a superior format, but because they evoke a memory of former times.
For myself, personally, I'm only slightly nostalgic for vinyl (we didn't have a record player in my house, but my babysitter did), but I have a ton of nostalgia for his lowest-ranked format, 8-tracks. That's what my dad had in his 60s-era Chevy pickup with an aftermarket 8-track player. I think of riding next to him on the bench seat and pulling out a tape from the black leather case that fit under it, containing a total of, I think, 6 options. We could both sing every song on them, and would do that in the parking lot when we waited for my mom to get off work. It was a terrible format, but the nostalgia factor is through the roof.
CDs, I can take or leave, I guess. For me, the CD was a thing I could burn MP3s onto and play through my CD player, attached via cassette interface to my 1987 Beretta.
For example, CDs are listed preferable to vinyl because the sound quality is better. That's not my understanding of how nostalgia works. People who grew up with vinyl records may be nostalgic for them not because they're a superior format, but because they evoke a memory of former times.
For myself, personally, I'm only slightly nostalgic for vinyl (we didn't have a record player in my house, but my babysitter did), but I have a ton of nostalgia for his lowest-ranked format, 8-tracks. That's what my dad had in his 60s-era Chevy pickup with an aftermarket 8-track player. I think of riding next to him on the bench seat and pulling out a tape from the black leather case that fit under it, containing a total of, I think, 6 options. We could both sing every song on them, and would do that in the parking lot when we waited for my mom to get off work. It was a terrible format, but the nostalgia factor is through the roof.
CDs, I can take or leave, I guess. For me, the CD was a thing I could burn MP3s onto and play through my CD player, attached via cassette interface to my 1987 Beretta.