Nobody ever went broke underestimating the appetite for immediate gratification.
$35.00 for an LP is a sucker game. Unless you burn it right away, it WILL pick up scratches or worse over the years. Or it will get dropped or otherwise int3rface ith an accident that causes damage. All kinds of things can and do go wrong with LPs. Trust me on that.
So the only way to prevent that is to immediately create a high quality rip, and how much does that cost? Not much. And why wouldn't you just do that in the first place? Because it's not being offered, because the "business" has it figured out that, for now anyway, people will pay $35.00 for vinyl.
Short term gratification, long term suckergame.