Save the Music - Record shops and Music products are dying.

There is nothing better than owning the entire product in the way that the artist intended. CD's and records can be cherished, shared, flaunted and kept for years to come - while MP3's offer no physical appeal and nothing to get attached to.

This is purely a cultural problem. We older people, and I do include myself in this, are used to a certain way of buying music. Because we love that music, we form an emotional attachment to everything associated with it – the physical product, the insert, the era in which the music was bought, the place we remember hearing it, and so on.  
 
However, the main attachment, the central attachment, is to the music itself. So if someone gets an MP3 they are still going to love their music, it’s just the emotional attachments which go along with that love will be different.  
 
I should also point out that lovers of vinyl also made the same argument about the move to CDs, that the inserts were smaller, didn’t have the same ‘feel’, and so on. Whereas the truth is, music is so powerful that it doesn’t matter a jot which mechanism is used to get it to you, the effect will still be the same.