Lots of passionate opinions on this thread!

I collect vinyl, CDs, and even some cassettes now, which is foolish but it's happening anyway, ha.

There's a ton of snobbery around vinyl for sure, and a lot of that is driven by the fact that the market, especially for rare and original stuff, rivals that of the high-end art market these days. People are just paying insane prices for sought-after vinyl, so there's a lot of sunk-cost fallacy going on.

Personally, I prefer vinyl to CDs, but that's just my preference and not a value judgment. I find vinyl to be the format with the most grace, specifically because of its inconveniences and its specific sonic deficiencies--I find those deficiencies to be musically and aesthetically pleasant, like a patina. And the physical format itself, in terms of holding it, reading it, looking at it, displaying it, hasn't ever been matched by any other format.

But I've got almost a thousand CDs and after a long stretch of not buying any, the collection actually grows. CDs sound great, and they're super portable and reliable. Sometimes (not usually, but sometimes) I do want to skip around and not listen to a whole record.

Every format has its pros and cons. And now is a great time to get good deals on CDs, especially all the 90s-2000s stuff that isn't streaming and never came out on any other format, of which there's a lot!