To be fair I can't remember the last time I actually USED a CD other than to rip it onto my hard drive and I can't remember the last CD I bought for myself, but up until now they've still kind of stayed around.
When I began to rip my CDs onto my hard drive I started putting them away, so most of my CDs have already been packed and placed out of the way. Yet a bunch still remained, mostly CDs of artists I don't listen to anymore or ones that I have 5 CDs that have been replaced happily by a Greatest Hits compilation, however up until today they were simply just taking up shelf space.
This past weekend I packed up the balance of those CDs, leaving behind a small stack that needs to be ripped onto the hard drive and leaving out a few of those "collector" case CD's for display.
I mean...really. I recall the time when we used to use cassettess and these huge video tapes. They're a long lost treasure now. And I'm starting to feel that soon enough the CD will too be on our list of "Whatever happened to those old huge things?". With the modern technologies coming in..bigger data is stored in smaller versions..which is a little haven of it's own.
It's much easier now to abandon CD's since most places you can get music digitally you can now get it without that pesky DRM. It's funny I alway's worried that my CD's wouldn't last forever, that something would happen to them and they'd become unplayable. Turns out something did happen to them, they became irrelevant.
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