Why do hipsters prefer analog?

What is hip today may become passe...

Probably because retro is cool. I got back into audio about 15 years ago and started buying records because they were super cheap at the time. Then it became hip and the prices shot up like crazy. Glad I got a collection going before the madness. I prefer CDs though. 8 track and cassettes are crap for fidelity in my opinion and the only folks I know that have any R2R gear are over 60.

One thing that does drive me nuts is when they refer to records as vinyls. They are vinyl records for Pete’s sake not vinyls; at least get the terminology right. I am technically a millennial by the way but do not want to be associated with hipsters in any way.

Hipsters like Jeeps too. My boss has one. He asked me if I liked Jeeps and I told him I drove one in the Army before they switched to Humvees. I really don’t know if he likes audio equipment. I know he likes the peanut shop store in downtown Akron OH and it’s the oldest store in our city. Because it’s old.... I think he thinks it’s cool.

https://www.downtownakron.com/go/the-peanut-shoppe

Yes, I’m referring to all those that started listening to analog format after the year 2000. That was the peak of CDs and the rise of digital downloads and streaming.

I love those photographs of twentysomething hipsters, in full regalia, on the patio of some cafe or whatever, listening to vinyl on a portable turntable.

That’s hilarious.  It conjures David Attenborough: 

“The hipster congregates in cafes, where his public display of extremely inconvenient but socially advantageous music-listening signals his credentials.  Yes, the hipster could experience far superior audio fidelity through technology of vastly cheaper, vastly more convenient means, and could indeed reserve the turntable for more convenient at-home listening, but then there would be no one there to observe him doing so…”