An idiots guide to an idiot: Vinyl or CD's?

My first music was brought on vinyl of course, cassette tapes alittle later then CD's. With the so called renaissance in vinyl I thought this would be an interesting point to ponder.
Personally I don't think vinyl will ever get back to the dizzy heights it once held, why would it? In the days of vinyl that's all there was! With the choice of how to listen to music now why would vinyl take over? I read that 40% of people who buy the new vinyl now available haven't even got the wherewithal to play the bloody records! Now just where is the sense in that? If there're looking for an investment........along with everyone else who is buying vinyl I think they're going to catch a cold. A good friend of ours has a veritable wall of sound, a wall of shelves stacked with albums, but, and here's the important bit, these are original vinyl albums and he's got some real rarities, some real collectors items and they aren't museum pieces either, they are played at the drop of a hat though I should say they are all well looked after.
The thing you can say for vinyl albums is they you can appreciate the artwork far better than on a small CD jewel case, though bands do still seem to put alot of effort into getting a good album cover. Then there was the open gate fold album, a thing of joy! Packed full of photos or written articles or the lyrics, unless they were on the inner sleeve the album was actually contained within, and it was written so you could bloody well see it!!! The humble CD is just too small to do justice to lyric sheets as well as artwork. Also on occasion you'd get a free poster which all added to what vinyl was about. I think CD's sound better, I know there is a certain 'romance' so called to the crack and pop of vinyl but CD's do have a better sound quality. There was a science programme on some time ago called 'Tomorrows World' and I well remember them looking at this new way of playing music on a CD, but the big thing was you could not scratch or even break a CD. They then proceeded to throw these CD's around and still they played faultlessly............what happened there then? What happened to our indestructible CD's?
I have a modest collection of vinyl album's, I have kept on wanting to get them out the loft and play some, my interest resurrected when Alec brought me a vinyl Quo album for Fathers Day but I still haven't. I've got about 120 albums & similar in singles but where do I put them if they come out the loft? I have been duplicating my vinyl with CD's as they take up less space are easier to handle and I can play them in the car, though I notice that the last two courtesy cars I've had from garages haven't had CD players in them, I suppose so many people now store their music on devices that connect blue tooth etc. I know you can download & store thousands of tracks but of course you get none of the 'collateral' info and photos etc.
I should end in saying that I still enjoy buying music,& still get a real kick, a tingle of excitement when getting the latest album from a particular band, and that hasn't changed in 38 years!