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Originally Posted by Highway_61

I have never liked CDs; have always been put off with all the "plastic-ness" of the packaging. All of it seemed antithetical to aesthetics, and CDs made the record store experience unbearable: row after row of plastic nothingness, row after row of people of clacking through the plastic.

I'm not a purist, though. It was great to be able to have the portability of the CD, so as to listen to music in the car without sacrificing fidelity.

But I never found a CD--whether ADD or DDD or SAC or Digitally Remastered or whatever--of Dylan's Blonde on Blonde that sounded as good as the vinyl Blonde on Blonde that changed my life.

I purchase mp3s now, and I know they'll get better or will be supplanted by mp5s or mp7s or something.

I despise iTunes. The iTunes store is the virtual version of plastic clacking nothingness. But alternatives are appearing. Amazon's mp3 system is a bit more aesthetic, for example, and I have purchased nearly every Bruce Hornsby concert recording available at munckmusic. com.

I miss--will always miss--buying albums; but I don't expect albums to ever return.

And CDs are done.

Jack's music shop in Red Bank, NJ has a bunch of new vinyl Dylan albums including "Blonde On Blonde" in mono. Most are $14.99 except for "Blonde On Blonde" which is around $25.00.