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What a sad world we now live in.......

What a sad world.....

Had to go to our local Wal-Mart for something for the wife and thought would check out CD,s while here.

Could not find them so asked where to be told they had decided to stop selling them in-store.

In fact the whole electronics section looked bare and desolate.

Pretty sure a sign of the buy online times we now live in.
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david_ten
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Michael Lavorgna on the (related) topic, recently:

https://twitteringmachines.com/high-end-munich-2019-cries-whispers/


david_ten
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1999 ~ 939 million physical CD shipments in the U.S.
2000 ~ 942 million physical CD shipments in the U.S.

2017 ~ 88 million physical CD shipments in the U.S.
2018 ~ 52 million physical CD shipments in the U.S.

[courtesy statista.com]

the CD format has a lot of life left in it

Where's the life??? I do not remember the last time I physically saw someone (a real life non-audiophile human) spinning a disc (Mobile/Portable or at home).

Is no one 'sad' for the tens of billions of polycarbonate plastic CD cases and mixed material polycarbonate, aluminium, etc. CDs (both with low recycling potential) out in the world wilds?
david_ten
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Yr. 2000 U.S. Population = ~282 million

Yr. 2000 CDs shipped = ~942 million

Yr. 2018 U.S. Population = ~329 million

Yr. 2018 CDs shipped = ~52 million

Yr. 2000   3.3 CDs shipped per U.S. person

Yr. 2018  0.16 CDs shipped per U.S. person

Or 6.3 persons in the U.S. per CD shipped in the U.S. in 2018.  
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