Why do we love imperfect physical media like vinyl & VHS tapes?

It’s somewhat notable to see in movies, TV shows, and web videos an artistic lean to imperfections. VHS flickers edited into the latest music videos that were likely shot in high definition. There is this recent artistic widespread expression in a lot of art. The faults on the surface of vinyl records are now the things that give them character.

Youtube channel Polyphonic covered this in a well crafted visually beautiful look at why we are drawn back to physical media and it’s faults.

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