I'm not of that generation, but music has gotten there for me. When i got a new Mac about five years ago, I shuffled my CDs through, inserting the next one as each one finished, ripping in the background while I did other stuff. It took about two weeks, but when I was done, I had my entire collection on the hard drive. Now the CDs live in a binder, the sleeves and jewel cases in a box in the attic, and I rarely look at either. They're backups.
...and gone with the record albums are all the rituals. The way you only handled the albums at the edges, the organizing the albums, thumbing through albums at a friend's house to get a read on their personality, cleaning them, etc. etc.