I listen to less and less of my analog collection. I've been contemplating moving to an all-digital format for some time, actually... dumping it all onto a terabyte drive and ridding myself of all the physical trappings of the music. I'd miss some album covers, but it's frankly quite difficult to deal with the space requirements of a large bookcase full of stuff.
We'll all be buying our music digitally in ten years, I think. We've gone from the edison cylinder to the 78 to the 45 to the 33 to the 8-track to the cassette to the CD, and the drawbacks to all of these mediums is their fragility and their need for actual storage space.
It's inevitable.
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