Going fully digital for music

As for sender, I got this from the artist himself. Legally he probably should have done, although there may have been an issue over who's law applies to an international sale, but I choose not to press the issue. I did inform him that I was whacked with a fee to receive the CD, but I omitted why because I don't think he was making much money off of crowd funding a physical release, it was basically fan service. I think he probably broken even at best. If I'd bought it from a label or a business that would have been different. But I decided not to try to claim money back from the artist himself, especially considering he had previously given me a CD of the first Lascaille's Shroud album for free. 

Always thought that maybe I should have got the fucking poster laminated though. 

It lasted for some time, but eventually started randomly skipping CDs. 

I later had one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01IVQW8SQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It was shit quality and paused between every track. 

This was the last one I had: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Z3F9UJ4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It played one CD and then promptly malfunctioned. 

I haven't owned an actual CD player since. 

When it went wrong it was because it completely lost power. It had a disc stuck inside of a film I'd literally bought that morning. It was only then I found out that the player was designed with no mechanism to manually eject the disc tray and this be able to retrieve the disc. I had to send it away for repair with the disc still inside. I went wrote a note to alert the technician about that, sent the disc's case with the player and asked them to retrieve my disc no matter what, providing my email address if the postage cost to return it was an issue.

They just threw it all away with no response. I was livid. I actually came out on top because Amazon fronted me an insane amount of credit to replace the movie (which I ended up doing with a digital copy and then still had credit to spare), but it got me thinking. What if I'd not been watching a DVD at the time but listening to a CD? Especially a CD that it would be difficult if not impossible to replace? 

This is the most expensive CD I've ever bought:

It cost me around £30. It shouldn't have done, because Royal Mail whacked a near £10 import fee on it, because the sender, the artist himself, declared the customs forms incorrectly (it should have been a $15 2CD plus a FREE poster, but it was declared as a $15 2CD plus a $10 poster). Anyway, this was a crowd-funded release, so copies were very limited even without considering that it had to be sent from the US and as it came out in 2016 and this happened in 2019, three years down the line meant that there was no copies available anymore.

It is the very definition of irreplaceable. So when my player went wrong and I was unable to get my DVD back, it really got me thinking over what could have been done if I'd happened to be playing this or something else rare at the time?

I've barely played any CDs from the disc since that day. 

I stream it, I like it, I buy the CD.

I stream, I don't like it (or at least not that much), I don't buy the CD.

Simple.

The only music I have on my PC that I don't own on CD is because the download was free and legal, which usually means it isn't on CD.

I like to have the CD. It might be a genre thing because the music I like tends to have really good artwork. My friends outside of those who also like rock/metal tend to like commerical music where the average artist's idea of an album cover is their own picture, pretty much every time. I don't see that there's much joy to owning the physical like that. But since I like metal when effort is put into artwork the physical is a must.

So Never on the poll. I also can't imagine selling anything I currently own.

Try the direct link to Dropbox, I could upload it here, but getting the site to accept is a pain in the arse.