How is this different from listening to an album on Spotify though?
The digital versions of a number of these albums have 'clipped' tracks - with a sharp start point | end point and some arbitrary generic silence length (of 0 - N ms) between them.
Seems like a minor thing but it is noticable to those of us that once listened to vinyl albums and the "between track" transition is arguably as much of the overall product as originally delivered as each individual track and track ordering.
The very act, the very ritual of starting a record playing changes the experience, even if everything else is exactly the same. You don't interact with music the same way.
Although I like to tell myself that the old fashioned way is objectively better with coffee.
People enjoy smoking because of many other elements besides the nicotine fix.
It also completely gets rid of skips and shuffle-play. And a song can't "grow on you" if you always skip it.
Some small rituals can be calming and centering.