Did they stop selling dial telephones and Elcassettes as well?
Don't knock dial telephones - at least they work in a power failure when land lines don't and after cells run out of juice.
I still buy CDs to rip to my server and keep them as safe back-ups, but I guess the same thing happens with downloading - unless your digital backup crashes, gets stolen, or corrupted. All of my buying is new/used online at prices that generally beat any retail source quite handily.
Ironic that while the CD is now on the way out, vinyl LPs seem to be actually increasing share a bit - and they are a 'safe' storage medium.