Thats what I feel about my music collection. I'm so glad that my wife bought me one of those stereo systems where you can burn your vinyl albums onto recordable cd's. 
Those do make it convenient.
My set-up is a bit more hands-on than that. I come out of my vintage Dual turntable into my tube pre-amp and directly into my M-Audio soundcard. I usually play the entire album side and capture it as a .wav file. Then I use EAC to process the .wav file and separate it into individual tracks. Sometimes I eliminate a few of the worst clicks and pops, but I really don't get much of those, because I have kept my LPs in great shape.
I use the same procedure with my reel to reel tapes, except that I sometimes alter the equalization since the tapes were taken directly off my live mixing board during a concert. There is often a characteristic "house sound" recorded onto the tapes that reflects an inverse of the EQ corrections I need to make to restore a neutral sound. No problem, really. Simple EQ fixes that.
It works. In fact, it works very well. My LP rips, played back directly off the hard drive sound much better than a corresponding commercial CD would sound, even using my fancy Denon CD player. Of course, once I have the pure, uncompressed .wav file I can burn it directly to a CD, as a data disk for archiving or convert it to an audio disk as I burn. I can also compress it into an MP3 if I want, all using EAC. With the price of storage dropping so fast, I just leave them uncompressed.
Right now, Mudvayne,
The Beginning of All Things to End. I'm in a alt/nu metal mood today.
