When you put it like that, it kind of makes sense. BTW, it is vinyl records. My best friend got obsessed with them, I have to buy them as gifts all the time.
And other enjoy the nostalgia of cassettes and eight tracks. You can hardly walk down my block without seeing someone listening to a 30 year old walkman. That's probably more of a style thing.
Part of what I enjoy about listening to tapes is in fact its subpar quality. The main reason I listen to tapes is because my two cars both take cassette tapes, so it's more a reason to have something to listen to while driving. But in a car, the small distortions on a tape are easily missed compared to listening at home. So it works great for me.
(Plus the silence at the end of each side is a great break every 40 minutes or so.)
I remember cassettes as convenient but with a lot of issues with sound quality.