According to the RIAA, It doesn't look good for physical media


The RIAA mid-year 2020 report is out and physical media, CDs or LPs, are not doing well. CDs still ship more units (10.6 million to 8.8 million), but LPs have surpassed them in $ amount shipped (CD - $130 million to LP - $232 million) for the first time since the 80s.

CD units shipped fell 45% from the mid-year 2019 report. LP units shipped gained 2.3%. Downloads also fell. Total Streaming revenues were up 12%. Total revenues for all categories were up 5.6%.

https://www.riaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Mid-Year-2020-RIAA-Revenue-Statistics.pdf

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When I go deaf or get too grumpy to play vinyl, I’m going to sell the lot to one of the nouveau wealthy who wants an instant collection for his Mag-Lev.
@noromance “Mag-Lev” Haha! Please...
I saw one of those things on a TV commercial about some kinda hipster something or other ad recently. I believe it was on top of a coffee table with a little refrigerator in it. 
Noromance.
I'm already too grumpy.
That's why I play vinyl.
Or that's what the better half is content with me doing.
Keep out of her majesty's way.
Bought virgin vinyl, half-speed mastered Japanese pressings of 1970s classics back in the day. Still unopened cello-wrap. Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and so forth. Of course then I couldn't forese the advent of streaming, so LP/CD play is rare around here these days, which is why these oldies are still pure mint. Now, would they sound better than remastered on Tidal? Depends on which aspect of which cut you're focused on. The remasters often get the balance all wrong: not wrong just because it's different, but wrong because they have no clue what effect (Christine McVie via Keith Olson, let's say) were rightly aiming for. On the other hand, remasters do extend and clarify the bottom end, often with a sacrifice of the the priceless delicacies. On balance, I'd go with my mint condition oldies, given the right "Mag-Lev," per @noromance, to play them on. 

Sorry, the point was value appreciation. So when I abandon this dystopian third-world polis of ours for somewhere vaguely civilized, should any such still exist and be willing to accept us white American equivalents of "Mexican rapists," my U.S. estate auctioneer will be given detailed instructions on how and where to market the audio media and electronic gear.
For my absolute favorite albums, or just albums that I think set a good mood, I do vinyl. For albums that I really enjoy, or maybe just that have a decent number of tracks that I really like, I buy used to CDs and then rip them into FLAC. Everything else I stream. Streaming is great, but listening to music that you actually own I think helps you to digest music in a slower and more thoughtful way.