I haven't been to a mall in years, do they still have music stores where you can buy music? (in the form of CD's or whatever). To be honest, I haven't even noticed if places like Best Buy, Fry's, or even Target still carry CD's. I know they still carry DVD's. I think the articles is premature calling for the death of DVD's. Downloading movies over the internet still requires hefty bandwidth.
This is actually kind of interesting in a way, although sad for the music stores. It's interesting because there is no hard object that replaces CD's. Before you had 8-tracks replacing vinyl. Then cassettes replacing 8-tracks. Then CD's replacing cassettes. And now nothing replacing CD's. By nothing I mean digital downloads over the internet.
It's kind of sad for the music stores like I said. I spent many hours just browsing music store selections of CD's (and cassettes before that) back in the 90's. I never got into the vinyl craze. I do have 3 vinyl records, but I don't actually own a record player.
As for CD's I still use them in my car. My car doesn't have the ability to play MP3's, and I don't own an MP3 player. In my car I usually listen to the classical public radio station, or if I'm in the mood for metal I'll put in a CD (my car has a 6 disc changer). At home I listen to either my MP3's on itunes, or youtube, or Pandora. But I expect to be using my CD's in one way or another for many years to come.
Interestingly, I don't even remember when stores stopped carrying cassettes. I didn't even notice. I haven't used a cassette tape in many years. I haven nothing that can play cassette tapes. Both cassette players on my 18 year old stereo are broken. I still have many cassette tapes in my closet, however.
I try to keep my stuff in good condition, but I also like to listen to it.
