I've never bought a VCR, and in the past ten years, only owned one for about six months.
When I got married 8 years ago, we got a DVD player as a wedding gift, so when we moved into our new place, that's what we had. When I graduated from college, someone gave me a VCR as a graduation gift, and we used that so our daughter could watch all the old kids' VHS tapes that Mrs. Sprry75 still had.
That VCR didn't last long, though; it conked out after about six months (probably because my kid pretty much had The Little Mermaid on a 24-7 continuous loop). By then we'd upgraded even the kids' shows to DVD, so there was no need to replace it.
I kind of hate VCRs and VHS tapes, too. It's weird.
But I vividly remember when my mom and dad brought home our first VCR back in 1983--it was this gigantic Magnavox top-loader about the size of a microwave oven. I thought it was pretty badass, though.