Vinyl vs Streaming

Streaming is quick and easy, and I find new artists that I would never have known, BUT when I put an LP on, well, everything changes. I feel more relaxed, the music speaks to me, and everything clicks. I have never thought about getting rid of my thousands of LPs. Yes many LPs sound awful but the majority are sublime. 

Yea, I know that feeling.

There are some tracks on LP's that make me realize, oh yea, this is why I am doing all this.

But sometimes and maybe cuz I'm just being lazy or tired, streaming just lets me sit there for a couple of hours without any work and that's nice also.

I've never understood the streaming paradigm.

Pay as you play, rather than pay once and play many times.

Some older LPs that I enjoy are just not available streaming. 

Seems that the tradeoff is between convenience and quality. 

It may take me longer to cue up some music on my vinyl rig than streaming a selection, but I have the satisfaction of knowing the quality of playback for every LP I choose to play.

This is an extreme position, I realize. Pig headed I may seem. Hey, maybe I am.

A couple of years ago, I spent around $4500 to upgrade my vinyl playback system. Not super high end compared to other systems, but certain albums do sound as good, or better, than streaming.  My streamer/dac setup also sound really good, so my choice usually comes down to convenience.  Streaming is much easier than vinyl and in my system, it's not a compromise in sound quality.  I very rarely play vinyl. 

@sls883 Yea, that's what I am talking about. I'm afraid I might get to the point where I don't want to put in the effort and just use streaming more cuz it's so much more convenient.

By the way, I am not dumping on vinyl in any way, hope my post does not come across like that.