To my knowledge, new albums pressed today on vinyl come from the same digital source as the CD. The cool thing about them is the cover art and the tangible aspect of placing the disk on the player, lowering the needle, etc. This is distinct to ye olde times, where the vinyl was either etched in the studio, or transferred from a 24-track analogue tape. I'm not sure how they do modern repro's of classic albums, whether they're new pressings of the original masters or not.
There's no point buying, say, Random Access Memories on vinyl, other than the coolness of the object.
Collecting old vinyls is fantastic though. They're a pleasure to own and listen to.
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