Apart from box art, I've never understood the nostalgia. CD technology captures a far greater audible range than what's integral to the vinyl players... It's also the use of tubes and other factors, including speaker chassis design, that led to a 'warm' tone for the latter, which is more easily ruined by scratches as well. Even uncompressed audio, next to high-end AAC compressed encoding, is virtually indistinguishable from each other -- frequencies outside the human's aural spectrum being excised or compressed before any other frequencies within... It's easier to have a new structure of wider-range (gamut) capture 100% of the lesser-structure's content. The other way around just isn't possible.
Not to mention, most modern vinyl pressings use the same digitally remastered copy made from the original 30IPS magnetic tapes used back in the day or whatever. If the source isn't the "original", and today's vinyl playback units not using the same hardware elements (transistors, tubes, et al - look up any deck that uses USB for output and party!)...
CD also uses fewer materials. Though, back in the day, if CDs had boxes similar to vinyl's, you'd still get the neat artwork, booklets with larger fonts, even less shoplifting as they were sold in larger boxes already to deter such an act.
Uncompressed or lightly compressed audio stored on local flash ROM chips still seems the best modern way...
