You’re not alone.
Also feeling old, and would like to (redundantly) mention that in addition to having to cue up a single disc twice to hear the whole thing, the “just pop it in” factor also seemed pretty nifty when you were used to delicately placing the tone arm down right at the beginning of the record - a feat which could get a bit iffy if you were in a party situation and liable to drunkenly skate it across the surface of the disc. 
…and I remember the first time I heard about CDs - in 1980, on a Canadian “What’s new in technology” show called “What Will They Think Of Next?” (Can’t find the actual episode, but just to give you the basic idea.) This program touted the virtual indestructibility of the media being developed, which they illustrated with an animation of a baby chewing on the disc with no ill effects. The actual product came with a little bit of a disillusionment. 
Will you be listening to some music on your Edison cylinder player during your flight, Mr. Skammer?
Man oh man – It was in 1984 that a friend of mine was advising me not to buy a new turntable, because digital audio recordings and players were just around the corner. I dismissed him by saying I hadn’t heard of such a thing, so LPs were probably going to be around for many more years. Not one of my better predictions.
Wow, he looks so young!
Not to mention his jacket.
Oh wow, I used to watch that show on Nickelodeon back when we first got cable. I hadn’t thought of that show in decades.
Anyone remember Monty Python’s* Matching Tie and Handkerchief*?
It had ***three sides ***(!)
Wow, Frank had “six to seven hundred” albums!
Amateur.
“What now contains music may one day contain words - a book, maybe - or even an entire dictionary.” Ha!
Well then you had to settle for plain old stereo instead of quadrophenic sound. Of course, it also depend on who’s next on your play list. 
I remember my Dad explaining to me why the CD I got of this album was divided into 3 “sides”, and how it was done on the vinyl. Cool idea. Didn’t translate to CD well. I also remember an album by… Tom Petty, maybe, that had a short track in the middle saying hello to those who were listening on CD, and we were going to take this little time to contemplate how the people listening on vinyl had to get up and flip the record.
I’m sure I’m going to feel equally as old when I have to explain to my kids that we had to take a physical thing and put it into another physical thing just to listen to some music or watch a movie. Also, that you used to have to call a building and just hope that whoever you wanted to talk to was there.
Ditto. May as well drag my broken down carcass out to the back 40 and shoot me.
LPs would gather dust, even when stored in their dust sleeves. I, and presumably an audiophile like in the video, would clean the disk before each play. The simplest cleaner is a cloth, but better would be something like a DiskWasher, which has fibers pointed in one direction to better collect the dust. With both, you’d have a small bottle of cleaner solution, and you’d put a couple drops on the DiskWasher to better hold the dust so it didn’t get redeposited on the disk.
It would take a minute or maybe two.
Then you have to do it again when you flip sides.
I think he might have been wearing a hairnet - understandable enough for someone working in precision-electronics manufacturing.
And who has a 22.4 liters of hair.
I recall going to a lecture in the physics department in the early 1980s where the lecturer was practically frothing at the mouth about the fact that this new CD technology wasn’t yet on the market. A couple of years later I saw my first CD store, only a couple of blocks from where that lecture was given. It was a big deal – the only CD store in the city. One of the sales clerks wore the ultimate fashion accessory on a chain around her neck – a CD broken in two. It was partly the allure of that rainbow-colored diffraction grating of a disk, but partly the Conspicuous Consumption that said “I either have had a CD player so long that I broke a disk already, or can afford to break ne of my disks to make a fashion statement.”
I didn’t get a CD player myself until a decade later, as vinyl LPs were disappearing from stores.
Excuse me but I gotta go chase some kids off my lawn…
:D:D:D Love it :D:D:D Thanks for the laugh.
Couldn’t help but notice the quietly implied 80s hipness in what I saw of the first guy’s CD collection - Nina Hagen, Bryan Ferry - except of course the first thing he pulls out is the mandatory Holst’s The Planets (really… it almost seemed like they were issuing it with every purchase of a player that first year…). Was a huge deal when we mounted the first player on the rack at the station.
And dear me, Porn Spock is disturbing…
Just think - there will soon be kids born who someday will have to ask how those old CD things worked!
Ooh, look at you and your fancy record player. This one didn’t need to flip the record over. It had a second needle that came up and played the other side from below.
Good memory – it’s on “Full Moon Fever”. The “Hello CD Listeners” track appeared just after “Running Down a Dream”. It featured Jeff Lynne and Del Shannon making animal noises in the background, while Tom delivered his monologue about LP listeners flipping over the album.
Exactly! It’s the primary reason why I said “a vinyl LP will (nearly always) have one single groove on a side”.
I still have my DiscWasher. And the little bottle that fits inside it.
mmm