Be sure to sharpen the cactus needle after every 3rd play (stylus.. we don't gots no steenkin stylii..)

You're missing the real fun of retro - - an old Emerson, with modrin caps and new tubes. The translucent case in a dark room, and a hare raising half-hour of Inner Sanctum (today piped in by what must be lots of CDs of those shows), complete with ads for even stranger stuff than Walmart.

But you have to hear it through that single-ended tube output stage - -

And maybe a couple of, The FBI in Peace and War ... to get you into the spirit of next season's series:
Fatherland Security Agents Duel with Fiendish Terrierists - their Neighbors and misguided Children.