i used to have many of these CDs when i was a young'n, and after CDs died i took the CD manuals and made them into a poster that looked like this ... its gone now and this brought me back !
i never stopped burning my favs onto cds which eans I have a material timeline of my musical tastes. its also just funs for friend to look thru my cds with homemade covers and pop a disc into my cd player. its a fun experience and im really grateful for my past and current self for keeping up with it.
vinyl is too expensive now so ive been collecting cds, it’s nice to have cds because my car is old and I have a cd player so they actually do get used. I don’t listen to my vinyls much at all but they looked cool on my wall at my apartments. Glad I’m getting practical use out of the cds 🥹
finally using my portable CD player again to listen to my favorite album that isn't on any streaming services anymore!! it's so fun to have physical copies of media I like, and it was great to not use my phone for once (though the CD would pause every time I accidentally bumped into the player while I was walking to class; it was kind of charming but also pretty annoying).
