roberjerman,
There are a few of us that have not embraced streaming, but the reality is that we are dinosauri. Streaming is gaining traction big time. Reading above posts from 16 years ago, I really felt like Marty from Back to the future movie. It just happened that I stopped by a local library basement today and browsed through the CDs they are selling. $1 a piece, all donated. I would guess there was a few hundred of them, maybe 600-700, ranging from 1970s German pop star, to traditional Chinese music, to multiple versions of Beethoven’s piano works, and anything in between. Someone left them there and that is, with actually nice outcome so far, a big part of the answer to the original post. Someone had no use for CDs anymore. Not so long ago, I would browse boxes with records there. They are no more. Probably whatever could be sold was sold and remainder ended up in the landfill. They do not take them in the library anymore. Maybe, 16 years from now, there will be no library to dump your CD collection at, either.
