Not to mention YOU OWN the CD unlike a iTunes download.
Yes and no... technically, you have still licensed the music on the disc (you are not allowed to broadcast it, public performances, etc.)
But I'm nitpicking. I've actually just bought a stack of CDs and use them to burn compilations that I then share and discuss with my friends - it is so much more "tangible", and - funnily enough - most people still have a CD player somewhere, even if it is in their car or whatever, and they seem to enjoy dusting it off and "going back to their roots".
I like the Verbatim "Digital Vinyl" CDRs for this, they look awesome and work great, giving a completely inauthentic experience!
*History Time*
Actually, you don't necessarily even own that. According to the law as it stands now stood aboot a decade ago in the US, you don't own even the CD as a storage medium anymore; you only own the plastic itself... your rights to the contents now are solely contingent upon the printed paper "label" that came in in the jewel box packaging with the copyright disclaimer on it.Due to the fact of pretty much everybody in the world getting rid of the CD cases then putting just the discs in CD portfolios to make their stone-age music library manageable... when folks started then ripping their library to iTunes, then selling the folios on eBay or pawn shops for a pittance, cutting into new disc sales across the board...
then music execs panicked and spent oodles of bucks buying new laws that made those folios of CDs technically illegal, therefore worthless in any legitimate resale venue.
However... before that time, the disc
and the copy of the data on it was technically yours, and the break-seal EULA stated so. This carefully crafted body of new laws retconned every law those same music execs agreed to with the end-user for almost 2 decades of CD music sales;
literally changing the terms of sale years after the physical item was purchased. Yeah, I also used to enjoy making and sharing mix tapes... "Fair Use" actually meant something once upon a time. Of course, that horrible evil of
distributing poor quality copies of individual tracks without paying music executives a cut under the pay for play business model was the excuse made for granting the RIAA their current level of unconscionable political and legal power.
The popularity of
Guardians of the Galaxy has recently brought with it a resurgence in this once popular pastime... as you say, much more tangible and personal than emailing somebody a link to your (or much more often, someone else's) playlist.
I used to use those discs back in the day; when I kept a small CD folio in the center console and a CD player in the dash. The car is a horrible environment for CDs; the attrition rate made archiving originals and playing copies, at least in my mind, an absolute necessity. Sadly, when I bought a Pioneer CD Cartridge deck, it refused to play them... and I had to go back to conventional clear substrate discs.
But hey! They were printable!
mnem