yea albums where mixed totally different 20 years ago, to get even close to a radio ready sound of today we need a bit more juice. But I also use compressors for tone shaping and for new york compression.
Vinyl samples need some compression yes.
@Dac ok so you don't work with vocalist, you need compression for that. But honestly, I use compressors on literally every track, and every instrument.
WHAT? You don't use any compression on your kick, bass drum etc? You also dont use a compressor on vocals ETC?
Seriously dac? Oh man, I got a few books you need to read.