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the sound is much better on vinyl--cd sound is highly compressed--you hear it in the relative one-dimensional character of the low end and the lack of warmth overall. you can still indulge a vinyl fetish pretty easily too, especially if your predelections run toward audiophile systems and heavy vinyl releases.
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This has been repeatedly and consistently disproven. Modern pressed CDs present no audible difference in sound quality, even in audiophiles. In double-blind tests with so called "audiophiles" who claimed to hear the entire spectrum and beyond (15 - 20,000 Hz) were unable to determine what was CD and what was a record.
This also assumes a perfectly preserved vinyl record, of which there are very few. CD quality music can be reproduced thousands and thousands of times without a loss of quality (as there always is in analog reproduction).
To the OP:
I think that CDs will start doing more of what you describe; as RIAA lawsuits continual to fail and the prices of songs go down, marketing such as that will become more and more important.
I recently bought the "Year Zero" CD by Nine Inch Nails, and it had a cool packaging/marketing.
"On February 12, 2007, fans found that a new Nine Inch Nails tour T-shirt contained highlighted letters that spell out the words "I am trying to believe."[9] It was discovered that iamtryingtobelieve.com was registered as a website, and soon several related websites were found in the IP range, all describing a dystopian vision of the world fifteen years in the future.[10] Many events reported on these websites take place in the year "0000." Digit Online later reported that 42 Entertainment had created these websites to promote Year Zero."
Even better, the CD itself was black, but after you played it once in a CD player the black wore off, revealing a white background with black lettering to the same website. Neat stuff.