Having a tangible, beautiful object, often with additional art and conveniently readable and viewable extra information, a dead end?! From where I sit, almost

Having a tangible, beautiful object, often with additional art and conveniently readable and viewable extra information, a dead end?! From where I sit, almost all the rest of the world are who went wrong, with impoverished, locked-in streaming services from businesses who take everything away the day you stop paying them, and dull audiofile-only downloads. But we seem to agree that Abe declaring unauthorized CD copying preparation to terrorism is ludicrous...