Haven’t you heard? CDs are back! They’re not quite enjoying the same renaissance as vinyl, and they still haven’t managed to gain the quirky hipster cachet of cassettes, but the dear old compact disc is once again seeing a resurgence as certain corners of the consumer market turn their attention back towards physical media. Hooray!
This is, broadly, a positive thing, especially for an old chunk of coal such as myself who used compact discs as their primary source of musical enjoyment. First, you’d just have to listen to your CD on a CD player (odd, that), but then came iTunes and the chance to rip your discs into a digital format and have them forever preserved on your computer library or portable iPod. What a time that was. What. A. Time.
