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The situation is even crazier if you look at fragile shellac 78-RPM records. The Internet Archive teamed up with the George Blood company to preserve as many as they can - and they're up to 165,000 records available for streaming from the Archive! https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

The entire mainstream music industry moved on from vinyl records decades ago and a vinyl-only release today is going to exclude most people in any generation. At least the people that grew up pirating will likely be aware that a vinyl rip is a thing!

And millennials seem to have been largely responsible for vinyl's limited resurgence anyway.

Yes, non-streamable music has a specific flavor to it nowadays. But I appreciate that YouTube is now putting a lot of old obscure stuff on "Topic" channels en masse, good quality as well. But it's probably still limited to whatever is owned by big labels.