Do MP3s get double compressed?

[ego killer]

i'm in the process of switching to vinyl, got about 100 records and am getting a turntable sometime this month. i enjoy digging so far and it seems like it will be much more fun, plus i'll actually listen to whole songs as the formats not disposable like mp3s. anyway in the meantime i'm wondering, when you sample an mp3 and load in into a DAW, does it get compressed a second time? so in other words it would be like 10% of the quality of the original song?

 

[MrWonderful]

Depends on the quality.

 

[Rusak]

As a fairly experienced DJ/producer... vinyl gives the best sound. But only in small rooms! IMHO, In big rooms CD's are the same as vinyl.
Go figure.
PS: depends how you sample. You will lose quality every render/recording... BUT! A vinyl is a wave, an MP3 is a staircase. analogue/digital. That's what bits and resolution is. Cycles and parts... . Wave = Vinyl. MP3 = Staircase. Google it... Understand digital vs analogue, then post again.