All Stocked Up and Nowhere To Play

I have a nephew who bought an lp a few years ago at Barnes and Noble and was shocked when he discovered that he couldn't play it on his computer 

Great for frisbee.

I weep for mankind’s future…

You'd like to see the form that was filled out in order to obtain the resulting data.  Could be a bias introduced by the way the questions were worded.  But that does not explain Mahler's nephew.