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I understand where you're coming from roachboy. I've got a modest CD collection (by collector's standards) of about 750. I enjoy flipping through them, looking through them on the shelves, looking at the cover art, and enjoying the different pieces that are paired together (classical music). I think it will be a long time before independent record shops go away, Tower's demise notwithstanding. Heck, there are vinyl shops all over, and the heyday of the record has been over for more than a decade.
Now I keep my CD collection on my computer in iTunes, which gives me a different sort of enjoyment. Before, I'd say 80% of my listening was to 10% of my collection (maybe 70-80 CDs). Now I'm much more likely to listen to a wide variety of recordings. Hell, I've got playlists set up to rotate things with low play counts to make sure I'm not letting things get stale. I also enoy the search capabilities in iTunes - I can find and play any recording within a matter of seconds. It's not the same as flipping through albums, smelling the vinyl, or enjoying cleaning the records, but there are rewards all the same. I really like the new iTunes release which lets you flip through cover art to select tracks. Of course, I've spent weeks loading the cover art to my classical music, but it's a neat gimmick.
And still I frequent Academy records on 18th St. Places like that will be around for a while, no matter what record companies do with their distribution chains.
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