Re: It sells razors
All kidding aside, I believe it's the needle itself that makes vinyl so attractive to the hipsters. The act of dropping that physical feeler onto that visible groove is, well, groovy.
Sorry.
But the point still stands. ;-/ The physicality of the experience makes one almost a part of the music, instead of merely the receipient of it.
BTW, I have a recording of a Jack Benny show from the late 40's where the band leader Phil Harris uses the word "Groovy," so the word was being used publicly well before the hippy era. Apparently it was pretty new tho, because Jack repeats the word back at Phil in a questioning way. I wonder where that word went during the 50's...