What a sad world we now live in.......

It’s not, "...a sad world we now live in...," it’s just reality. So what if Walmart and Best Buy don’t sell CDs anymore. Who bought them there anyway? It should not come as a surprise that most of the CDs worth buying have already been bought. As a senior, I’ve lived through the cavalcade of medium changes. VHS was replaced by DVD, and DVD was superseded by Blu-Ray. Vinyl was replaced by cassettes, and then by CDs. Now it’s back to vinyl! The music and film industries have played us pretty well. So what’s next, streaming? Not for me.

I still have my vinyl, cassettes, CDs and occasional Blu-Ray to play. The reality is that the world may be waiting for the next format war to begin (MQA, digital downloads, or whatever) but many of us will just be enjoying the music and film collections we have accumulated.

I am an audiophile and have a front license plate that says so 🙂  I only stream. Well 90% stream and 1000 ripped CDs.  All the new music I listen to is streamed.  In fact I have never listened to this much new music and its all due to streaming! All kinds of new music a click or two away. Audiophile paradise I say. 

I have absolutely no idea what an audiophile even is?

Listening to a VERY well recorded and produced CD right now.

Does that make me an Audiophile or an Audiophool?

Don't know and don't care...

Thank you.

💿📀

Seriously I stream a lot and as Grannyring states there is just masses of new to us music waiting to be discovered with just a few clicks. .... Very cool indeed and I have abused it considerably over the past few years!


But.....

At this stage would I be happy dumping all my physical media?

Heck no!

And if THAT makes me an Audiophool then so be it.

However to return to the main topic.

While I realise that CD sales likely made up less than 0.05% of Wal-Mart sales when you consider all the other junk they still carry it is still a little depressing at least to myself.

Oh well, maybe just my jaded perspective.