I already put all my albums, thousand in lossless files, beginning decade ago...
It is impossible to store thousand of cd and thousand of books in a small house for two... I did not have even a dedicated acoustic room anymore .... Then i understand the shock of this closure because it is human interaction which is lost...
But anyway the time is already here where A.I. will create my future homemade acoustic room and device...And headphone designed with deepest acoustic knowledge coupled to the Choueri Dac BACCH filter will render speakers in a living room useless...No need for audio reviewers save for anecdotal reading... Then no material albums, no speakers and a headphone creating any acoustic soundfield at will in 3-D... At 72 years old probably i will not be able to afford it soon when it will come, but if you are younger you will live with it because it will become affordable...
The greatest revolution right now is A.I. not the economic crisis or the war or pandemic...
But with A. I. it will also increase the lost of human interactive relations... As the tv make it so, and the computer, and now the A. I.
I am not a luddite but human relations are possible only on social sane real public space... There is no more private space versus public space anymore...
Then loosing a fifty years store is loosing something we can call a warming human space...