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Are your vinyls ones you purchased brand new, before other forms of media were available?
If no, same question for the tapes
I was too young to purchase cassettes (though they were a vibrant part of my childhood I spent every penny of allowance on penny candy and saving up for game carriages) but I am definitely old enough to never be emotionally ready to part with those mini cloth binders full of CDs.
My first paycheck paid for a Sony Walkman that played disks.
Vinyl, some were purchased new, but for me as gifts.
Tapes, all^+ were purchased new, most for me as gifts but some with my own money.
^+ except for the ones I recorded myself, of which three are several