I've spent an hour or three every day for the last few days rummaging through the 10p bargain 7" records downstairs at the Music and Video Exchange on Smallbrook Queensway, and I've found some real gems.I love the format - I'd forgotten how much. One song per side, bigger than a CD but not so big as to be unwieldly, and a great, punchy and crisp sound when played on my turntable. Vinyl doesn't sound particularly better or worse than CDs to my ears -- but it does sound very different. It has a different quality to it - all clicks, pops and analogue warmth aside.I like getting up to change records - particularly singles. I like rifling through them. I like putting them through the sink like a load of washing up (lukewarm water only, of course -- and rinse thoroughly before drip drying), to get the real encrusted dirt off. Does them no harm and they usually come up a treat.I enthusiastically like songs as 45rpm 7" records that I wouldn't listen to in my digital collection -- and I'd throw the CD away if I had it. You can get away with real twee on vinyl. I have favourite singles that aren't favourite songs.It smells cool. It feels great. Only one problem - none of the hundred or so tracks I've had on high rotate for the past few days have been showing up in my Mog, my Last.FM or my iLike accounts.But with these 10p per record bargains, you have to wonder about the value of 79p a track downloads. No smell. No feel. No picture sleeve. No second-hand market. No washing up to do.I win the lottery, and I replace as many of my songs in iTunes as I possibly can with the original 7". And I'm getting a second turntable and a mixer for the living room. Not so I can be a dancefloor DJ, but so that I can relive the experience of radio as it was when I first got into it 20 years ago -- almost to the day. And why not? I'm playing the same tracks this afternoon as I was back then... and I probably have no fewer listeners than I did at that little fledgling station out in Manukau City (Oasis 94FM - now thankfully defunct) or on the graveyard shift at bFM.