Yet just as vinyl has been undergoing a renaissance lately, it appears CDs have also hit the comeback trail. They were less glamorous than vinyl, less cool, less tactile, less sexy, less magical.”
CDs “were never about romance - they were about function,” Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield wrote in January. The sounds of nicks and scratches are part of vinyl’s charm. Compact discs may be less fragile than your old records, but music purists insist CDs can never match the aura of vinyl.