Commentary: How vinyl fills a generation's need for human interaction

The record player and the Polaroid camera, both antiquated technology, are making a comeback within my younger generation. These modernly useless machines have been embraced by "hipsters" and have assumed their own spot in a sort of new counterculture.

But what makes people willing to pay for such impractical things?

I have the most experience with the record player, having asked for one a couple of years ago for my 16th