Whilst poor Growler sticks a claw into a bit of vinyl and plays the tunes through his skull 
Correct, and to do that, I simply plug it in, flick the owld bakalite switch on, chuck an LP on the turntable, and sit back to enjoy.
No messin,no hassle, no bloody digi down/up loading crap, no bloody thank you.
I can sit and admire the art werk on the sleeve and read the cover and inserts too!
Absolutely wonderfully spiffing.
Do carry on TRYING to down/up load your digi tripe. 
You're right about the album artwork Growler - you really used to get something you can hold and admire... Sometimes the Lyrics and a Bio too - I miss albums... 
But if you don't want to listen to the same Al Martino LP every day then MP3 downloads are the way forward! I've just bought some great stuff from my yoof - Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson - how wonderful. And it is as easy buying and downloading on Amazon as it is buying a new battery for pasty's old phone like....
AND I can play them on my house system, in my car and I'll be listening to them on the 'plane tomorrow (which is why I've just stocked up)...
Try getting yer radiogram on the hairy plane as hand luggage and finding somewhere to plug it in... 
It's not easy down/uploading at all, as I found out when I tried to do so with one of these dingly dangly digi whatnot things that I bought for a tenner a couple of years ago, and that is as fiddly as hell to use, requiring the use of a magnifying glass to read what's written on the piggin' useless virtually impossible to use tiny buttons, that you have to borrow a baby for to press them, oh yes, and DO NOT get me on me soap box about those absoliutely mind boggling bastard excuses for ear phones 
Absolute absolute absolute pure 100% utter utter utter bloody cack shite of the highest order.
They won't stay in yer ears, that's assuming you actually got them in in the first place of course. 
Dare to move, and they fall out.
Absolute bloody typical modern digi trashcrap, simple as, bloody sheeple nonsense for the masses that's all it is.
Well I'm NOT a sheeple, and I am NOT part of the bloody rancid masses, OK? 
I'm going to resurrect me old cassette personal player thing just to piss everyone right off. 
Get proper man's headphones then like wot I have...
Pair of these!
THREE HUNDRED BLOODY QUID!
Are you actually havin a bloody laf ey, are you?
THAT my dear BM, is quite nearly as obscene as that bastard rancid rat rag, that that turnip brained plant bought that came close to giving me an 'eart attack.
You lot are unbelievably gullible with your MUST have tat to keep up with your fellow sheeples.
