"Are you too young to have witnessed how quickly records and cassettes died once CD technology became available to the masses? We went from always having to hea

"Are you too young to have witnessed how quickly records and cassettes died once CD technology became available to the masses? We went from always having to hear a humming from the background noise of the cassettes and records to almost perfect silence when the music wasn't playing." I did live through that transition. While I agree - then and now - that the sound quality was superior, it was the ability to random access songs on the album that excited me. That was groundbreaking - it was incredible! Better sound quality was just a bonus ... any song on the album, right this second, without having to do anything!