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In other words, you're just listening to analog playback of digital sound. Which really just happens at the DAC on digital devices anyway. Have fun with your pops and scratching I guess.
http://xiph.org/
You can have a preference for it, happily, but it is actually inferior.
Of course, mastering in the modern age for CDs renders them awful sounding for various reasons unrelated to the format (and these bad-sounding masters can be transferred to vinyl--indeed, they have been!)
--Owner of a couple hundred records who still buys them anyway, so don't take this as "I look down upon you vinyl listeners," I just try to remain realistic about it. It's an experience sort of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwdQkHhsBwY
They talk about vinyls at 10:30.