I'll go the other way. I wouldn't trade a clunky VCR for a terabyte HDD of ripped DVD ISOs.
Also old mail order via a magazine versus shopping online.
I suppose I miss when the local BBS owner bought a new CD of PD software, it was like striking gold when you dialed in. Nowadays the possibility of messing up my system (Windows and Amiga) put me off trying out a lot of freeware and shareware software.