The reason that illegal downloading is as popular as it is is because the downloads are of the same quality as CD quality. If vinyl was the popular listening form people would be more inclined to buy their music. amirite?

Vinyl recordings are analog instead of digital, which gives them a much different sound than you get from a CD or computer. It's hard to explain through text, the best I can recommend is to listen to something you like on vinyl, then immediately listen to the same thing on CD or Youtube. Whether the sound is scientifically better from vinyl is debated, but many people dedicated to music agree that the overall experience from vinyl is better (ie. the analog sound, putting the needle on the vinyl, the full sized album art).

Torrents

Awesome, let me go download that App onto my non-existent Droid.

You can also get a very good sound out of using a Youtube to mp3 converter. It'll be the same quality as the Youtube video is.

Yeah, that's what I used to do, actually. Personally, I found the sound to be terrible quality, but maybe I was just using the wrong website.

I've been using this site and haven't had any real problems with it.
video2mp3.net

That site actually worked pretty well, OP. Which is good, considering the fact that Chrome started blocking me from downloading anything from the website I used to use.

Nrgrgrgrh I hate torrents.