I've actually bought more CDs in the past 2 years than I have in the last 20.

I've been re-ripping all the music to a hi-res music player. I like streaming, but I also like the feeling of owning my music. Also, if I go on a long drive, I go through some patchy cell areas and it burns my data and battery up, so it's nice being able to have my player connected to the car.

I think in a year or two CDs will be coming back stronger, much like vinyl did.

Also, I kid you not. I saw a guy wearing a Sony Sportsman CD player at the gym just last week.

I started buying vinyl about 10 years ago, but I stopped listening to it once it started to become popular again. Why? Because I got tired of only being able to listen to 4 songs before I had to swap out the record, or flip it over.

Now, if they were to invent a way that you could play 60 minutes straight I'd go back to vinyl.

I know growing up, we used to have a record player that you could stack multiple records, and once one would get done, the next one would drop down and start playing again. But I haven't seen any new players that do that.

Yep that big wooden cabinet one looks exactly like the one we used to have. Only ours had a liftable top, not sliding doors. My dad stripped it's guts in the 90's and is now a blanket cupboard down in the basement.

But yeah, I haven't seen any new record players that do that old way of cycling records. I'd like to get a new one that connected to my home theater. The one I have is one of those Retro styles from 10+ years ago.

While we're all becoming more dependant on getting our entertainment from streaming services, I really don't like the idea that it will make physical media obsolete. If it ever does, we're stuck paying for monthly fees for everything.

Up until the 90's, we never had cable or dish in our family. The only subscription we had was a phone line. No internet. Now as an adult, I have subscriptions to: Internet, Cell phone, Netflix streaming, Netflix Disc, Google Play, Hulu, and Sling. I'd save about $200 a month if we were back in the mid-90's.

20 years from now, this will all be different. I hope for the better, but I doubt it.

Guess I'm a purist. Like mentioned by others before, I can't stand compressed video or audio. I'll watch shows that I don't care about on netflix. But movies, I want the best quality. I don't want to see banding on colors in gradients, or artifacting in motion, or compressed 5.1 audio.

Just like every other industry, we're giving up a high quality product, for a more cheaper one that's "good enough."

Yeah, that bothers me. Those who don't know what's good for them are ruining it for the rest of us.