Claw Marks

I got this copy of Bitches Brew last week. Vinyl was in excellent condition but there were claw marks on the spine - cat claw marks as it turned out. Maybe the cat did not like Miles' new direction in 1970.
Why do we buy vinyl? Here is part of the answer given by one of the characters to another who worjs in a record shop in the new Michael Chabon book Telegraph Avenue: "I'm saying we are living in the aftermath. All's we got is a lot of broken pieces. And you been picking those pieces up, and dusting them off, keeping them all nice and clean and that's commendable. Truly I am offering you a chance not just to hang them up on the wall of your museum, there , maybe sell one every now and then for some white dentist or tax attorney to take home and hang on his wall. I'm offering you. I'm saying, come on let's really put them out there where the kids are , where the future's spending its money. Teach them. Explain what all those broken up pieces mean, why its all important. Then maybe one of those kids, maybe he's going to come along, learn what you have to teach, and start putting things back together."