[justy]

I'm kinda on the fence with this one. There have been cases where I prefer recording from vinyl to ripping from CD, like the Beatles' White Album, where the CD sounds like crap, so recording from vinyl was a definite improvement in sound quality. Many mid-80/early 90s CDs have pretty bad sound quality. Compare, for instance, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless on CD to the vinyl. There's a good bit more detail on the vinyl release.

For most modern releases, I prefer CD for ease, and maybe I'll buy the vinyl too if I really like it. For older releases, I'll prefer a good remastered CD over a first-release CD (compare many Sony/Columbia Records Jazz releases to special remastered versions of the same releases), but if there isn't a remastered version, I'll prefer vinyl.