CDs Vs LPs

I tried to get into vinyl 20 years ago. Completely unimpressed. I can't do the hiss and pops. I can't deal with a radio station that has low level static or very high hiss like the university station near me. So far I haven't heard any digital that grates on my ears like the noises associated with vinyl. I'm pretty sure it's just me and my ears, but I didn't grow up listening to all that and I never learned to listen past it on any medium. 

@atmasphere
The bottom line for me is that it’s vastly cheaper to put together a digital source that sounds better to me than vinyl. Regardless of the technical reason, it's a failing of the technology and it's expensive to eliminate.

As an aside to the crowd, why’s everybody calling vinyl an "LP". LP refers to the length of the program. "Long Play". As opposed to a shorter format called an EP. LP’s come out on any physical medium.

The last turntable I heard was this monster a guy built out of what looked to be 3 inch chopping blocks. He had it up on isolation. The tone arm was a 16" plank of what looked like walnut. The arm hung from one polyester string tensioned with neodymium magnets. The AC motor drove the platter with 1 polyester thread, and the motor was driven by a class AB audio amp being fed a sine wave from an iPod to adjust the speed and torque. It was a beautiful turntable. I had high hopes it wouldn't be full of hissing and popping. I was wrong. Everything that grates me about vinyl was still there. I've tried to give it a try over the years. My mom gave me a crate of old vinyl including some highly desirable albums. I gave them away with my Technics turntables. I don't know what you have to spend to make vinyl sound good, but I've yet to hear it. 

Sorry. Long Play albums come on tape, CD, vinyl, and digital. Not all albums are long play. Some are extended play, i.e., EP. Are all EP made of vinyl?

And this whole pre-amp problem... Not a problem with digital. 

Uberwaltz,
Vinyl has pretty much been an obsolete technology my entire life. If a music store carried it, they'd have maybe 30 or 40 albums in the back corner. Good old fashion tape is what I grew up listening to. I'm quite sure I've never heard a vinyl record broadcast on radio. I like tape. 
Having grown up in an era where vinyl basically didn't exist, terms like LP, EP, and Single most certainly persisted completely independent of the recording medium. I've bought plenty of LP, EP's, and singles on tape and CD. Those are the ONLY ways I've ever bought hardcopy music. I don't think anybody 40 years old or younger associates LP, EP, or Single with the diameter of a piece of plastic. Calling anything that comes on a disk of vinyl an LP strikes me as having the same logic as calling my HP printer/scanner/copier a Xerox machine. It's an antiquated misuse of terminology that dates the user to a generation born before about 1970. 

Dynaquest4,
The terms LP, EP, and single have no connection to vinyl records aside from describing the size of the object. Using your logic, the CD is the new LP since long play albums basically expected to utilize the space a CD offers. I could just as reasonably say anything that come close to filling a CD is an LP and anything that can fit on an 8cm CD is a single, standard, or EP. But then plenty of singles and EP's come on 12cm CD, too, just because the medium is so cheap. And really, cheap is what vinyl has always been about. I get a laugh from folks who listen to Frank Sinatra on vinyl because not even Frank Sinatra listened to vinyl!