Analog TV Worked Just Fine, Thanks

Caved in an bought a digital TV today only to get it home and find out that it picked up about half as many channels as my old TV with the converter box. Well I already put the old one in the attic and I guess I'll leave it there. I'll return the new one tomorrow. Couldn't get either to work with VCR to record. Broadcast TV is just the latest thing that the government has screwed up...not sure whether to blame the NRA, the ACLU, OctoMom, Obama, Bush, LBJ, illegal aliens, space aliens, organized labor, Tea Baggers, fluoride in the water, or possibly North Korea. Hhrumph!