By the time CDs came out, I already had a sizeable record collection. I was the first on the block to buy a CD player. It was one of those Phillips top loaders. I quickly learned that Sony's claim of "Perfect sound forever" was a joke. As more people jumped on the CD bandwagon, some of my friends and I started cleaning up at garage sales buying up as many good LPs that we could get our hands on. I bought out entire collections for ten-cents each to fifty cents each. And I'm talking about really good mint classical, jazz and classic rock. I'll never forget the one guy (a Brit) saying, as I was walking out of his house with 300 classical albums, all import pressings that I just paid him a dollar apiece for: "I don't know why you would want records anymore when we have these great sounding CD players." I told him I was too poor to be able to afford a CD player. *lol* I was thinking ... "thanks for the EMI's, the imported RCA's and the Telefunkens. All found a good home.
Phasing out of Compact Disc
So just this week my wife and I pre-ordered the new Melody Gardot and Florence and the Machine, $33 and $29 respectively on Amazon. There's absoluetly no reason for these prices, and we've never seen anything like this before. These aren't imports or high res files. Talk in the streets is that this is the beginning of the end of physical media. Of course it will be around like vinyl. Thoughts?