The jacket says thus:

HERE'S HOW RECORDS GIVE YOU MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT

1. THEY'RE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT BUY. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form. Every album is a show in itself. And once you've paid the price of admission, you can hear it over and over.

(Derek's comment: Given that I tend to buy at thrift shops, I agree that these daysrecords are top quality for the money I've paid. $1 for an hour of music ain't nothing to sneeze at.)

2. THEY ALLOW SELECTIVITY OF SONGS AND TRACKS. With records it's easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again a particular song or side. All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it. You can't do this as easy with anything but a phonograph record.

(...that is, until CDs came along. They make a good point -- fast-forward and rewind were clumsy, innacurate ways of accessing songs, compared to a record album. Compared to the exact access of a CD, however, lining up the needle with that 1/16" inch clear band on the album is a pain.)

3. THEY'RE CONVENIENT AND EASY TO HANDLE. With the long-playing record you get what you want to hear, when you want to hear it. Everybody's familiar with records, too. And you can go anywhere with them because they're light and don't take up space.

(By my unscientific analysis, I found 6 CDs fit into the space of 3-4 record albums, so there's some space-savings, but not much. Compared to a hour-long reel-to-reel tape, you can fit several albums into the space a 7" reel take up, so we see what they're comparing. In today's world, however, familiarity with record albums is waning; people under 20 probably recognize records, but many haven't actually used a player before.)

4. THEY'RE ATTRACTIVE, INFORMATIVE, AND EASY TO STORE. Record albums are never out of place. Because of the aesthetic appeal of the jacket design, they're beautifully at home in any living room or library. They've also got important information on the backs -- about the artists, about the performances or about the program. And because they're flat and not bulky, you can store hundreds in a minimum of space and still see every title.

(The attractiveness of an album cover is indisputable -- people lament the disappearance of album art today. Their large size makes for easy passing around, and real artists created the covers, worthy of framing. Tape cassettes were the first place to really lose album art, due to their shape; the squarish CDs brought some of it back, but at 1/6 the size. Downloads just about eliminate it altogether. The part about storage is pretty accurate, in terms of floorspace, but today it's tough to find a set of shelves deep enough for a record album. They also don't mention that after all the portability of a record, the spine gets pretty dinged up and tough to read edge-on.)

5. THEY'LL GIVE YOU HOURS OF CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING PLEASURE. Just stack them up on your automatic changer and relax.

(I never liked the changer much (dropping the albums so they scrape against each other until they match speed? ouch.), but I can see how it was a big feature at the time. CD changers were very expensive until recent history, and even now anything that holds more than five or ten disks is a expensive deal.)

6. THEY'RE THE PROVEN MEDIUM. Long playing phonograph records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but there's a world of difference. Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record's technical excellence and insure the best in sound reproduction and quality.

(This arguement continues today -- analog, vinyl-pressed record albums are the most accurate, most resilient way to store music today, and people are still making them using the same process as in the 1940s. In my lifetime, the LP record album will hit 100 years old, and I imagine somebody will still be cutting grooves in wax.)

7. IF IT'S IN RECORDED FORM, YOU KNOW IT'LL BE AVAILABLE ON RECORDS. Everything's on long-playing records these days...your favorite artists, shows, comedy, movie sound tracks, concerts, drama, documented history, educational material...you name it. This is not so with any other kind of recording.

(Well, this isn't true today, of course. Most everything ends up on CD at first -- and sometimes it's downloadable before it hits CD now. The reverse isn't true though: not everything on vinyl is on CD...hence my love for thriftshop album finds. There's stuff you can't hear anyplace else.)

8. THEY MAKE A GREAT GIFT because everybody you know loves music. And everyone owns a phonograph because it's the musical instrument everyone knows how to play. Records are a gif tthat says a lot to the person you're giving them to. And they keep on remembering.

(As I said before, people today might have seen a record player sometime in their life, but I doubt they own one anymore. The statement itself, however, still rings true: regardless of the medium, buying someone music as a gift is still seen as a good thing. I don't know a kid who doesn't have at least a few artists and albums on their birthday list every year.)

The list ends with the ominous statement, AND REMEMBER...IT ALWAYS HAPPENS FIRST ON RECORDS. In a generic sense, yes, it did: the way CDs are organized was started by the LP record. Prior to LPs, records only had one song on a side -- the "b-side" term that is still used extremely anachonistically today, and the term "album" hails from the photo-album-like way of storing a collection of 78s together. If anything, CDs extended the culture of music listening created by record albums. Music was played for a household's listening pleasure, an hour of one artist's music at a time (good songs and bad), and high audio quality was emphasized. Downloads are changing this moreso: they are returning to the song-by-song style of early records and 45s, but few MP3 players fit into the home-stereo system. MP3 players are portable, individual listening systems for collecting as many songs as you can, in a lossy and noisy compression codec, so you can blot out outside noise. Music listening is turning into muzak, something to avoid silence or cacophony, rather than an home-theatre experience. TV has taken that over, so the demise of record listening isn't in differing formats, but in differing lifestyles.