[myself248]

I've recently gone back to buying CDs.

I got annoyed with stuff "going gray" in my Spotify playlists, just vanishing out of the blue after I'd fallen in love with it and wanted it to be part of my mood and given that mood a name and curated a whole menagerie to go with it.

Soma's no answer to that, so this is way off-topic. But streaming services are no replacement for the CD. I'll rip and encode and curate on my own devices, especially now that it's trivial to pop a 128GB microSD card into my phone.

[kdmccormick]

I'm with you. But you can imagine that for the average listener, especially those with limited free time and disposable income, tracks going gray is rare enough that it doesn't warrant switching back to buying CDs.