Vinyl***What If***

Schubert, electric let alone electro-acoustic guitar can sound great, we should not I think take purist perspective to the point of absurdity.
Singing in microphone can also be great. Yes, it is better without it, I compared many times.
Bill, I like your friend already, reggae is a one tune one rhythm all the time, it's more of a dance than music.
And no-one I am aware of plays art rock like Pink Floyd, used to play I mean. Authentic blues, yeah, but I get bored quite quickly, good for the right mood.

The real point is that it is all a matter of taste. We all like what we like but I'm not going to write something like "jazz isn't live music" just because I don't like jazz or because someone used a microphone. I'm also not going to set a quality standard (for myself) that recorded music sound just like it does live. That can be a fleeting capricious standard not to mention that a great deal of music isn't recorded 'live'.

Again, if someone else wants that to be their standard they are welcome to it. There's just no need to denigrate someone else's music genre.

I did not say it can’t sound good , I said it is NOT live music . Point is , if your system is set for symphonic music in a hall, the hardest thing to replicate in audio , then the advice of less that 2% of the people on Planet earth is of much use to you .

I don't like rock because I was grown before it existed and I know it has been bad for both the level of music and society in general . This will never change so hear what you will .

👍👍 2 thumbs to all that mentioned the entire experience. It is fun to hunt fkr them on a weekend at thrift stores and auctions or on holiday. The albums become prised and cared for possessions. Listening sessions become just that and not background music. It's cool to talk about vinyl with friends. Vinyl is a physical thing and not something in the air like streaming is. You may like it or not  ut give it a try. 

As others I suggest start out simple but with some quality. 
Rega P3 
MM cartrige. You wont need step up transformer 
Clean records. 

Have fun with it or not. You will figure  out which way to go from there.