Yes digital as in cd. I mean you can go with an interface like Serato Scratch. But that's just more gear to buy. To be honest, IMHO the "feel" of vinyl is overrated and is often obstructing and limiting to what one can truly do with digital decks.

Here's a possible scenario:
He gets a set of vinyl decks as a means to learn beatmatching, crowd recognition, and song structure. All things that can be learned on digital decks. He starts producing his own tracks and find he has no median to play them (ie: CD's). Then he has to buy a (as in one) cd player to feature his own tracks. Eventually, he'll want to play sets in which all of the tracks are his own (or personal remixes). Also as a producer (we hope at this time, he get's some recognition), he'll be getting promo tracks from others. All of which will likely be on CD's.

Where am I going with all this. Well, aside from the limitations of vinyl decks as compared to cd decks (a complete separate conversation altogether), it's likely that he'll be moving on to cd decks anyway. So it make most the most practical and economical sense to skip the middleman of vinyl and just go directly to cd's.

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