For me its got to be vinyl. The feel of it as you physically put it down to play it. The fact you can't walk away and leave it so the needle doesn't go onto the label. You have to clean it and store it properly. I end up buying plastic wallets to put them in
You don't get that kind of love with CD's and can't with MP3's. And the fact that charity shops have loads of vinyl (classical) for about 50p that are normally prisitine.
Add to the fact that you can get a lot of ltd. releases on vinyl with different colours. My three favourites at the moment being Neurosis grey marble effect (eye of every storm), Mastodon blue marble effect (Leviathan), and Soilent Green see-through green vinyl. The latter especially as I was expecting normal black vinyl.
You also get picture discs which look great mounted on your wall, also cut in funny shapes.
In general vinyl =