Samplers.
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Bottom line is what will you use it for...the old hardware samplers are really just another means of doing what you can do in something like Ableton (or any number of programs really). Which is triggering and looping sounds and applying various envelopes and effects to them (this may be overly obvious but hey:).
Nowadays with the predominance of electronic music even a lot of rock bands are using these techniques, hence the use of samplers by the bands like the ones you mentioned. But there's not a whole lot more to it than that, and when you get down to the actual sounds they are recording there's nothing unique about what you would get out of a hardware sampler other than perhaps the tactile physical interface which some people prefer. You can also get a MIDI controller of some kind to trigger software that does the actual "sampling" work.