Going from CD's to an ipod feels kind of like atheism

Let me plow through that shitty title real quick.  Its something I was thinking about on my way here (coffee shop...alright Starbucks).  We don't really have any need for them now and maybe we haven't for a while.  I remember in the mid 90's when a giant volume of CD's meant something.  You know the people who would craft wooden shelves just to display their collection like an amateur library in their basement.  The CD itself was just a medium but I remember thinking it as a physical analogue for the music itself which made it tangible and less abstract.  I remember the CD itself kind of justified the purchase (almost 20 bucks per CD pre 2000.  Adjust for inflation and you can see how that would ruin a kids day).  You pay out the ass but at least you accumulated material for it and you could tell yourself that you were building a library, one that could be archived as a historic collection in the Smithsonian.  But the music is everywhere now and the awkward disks that hold  small amounts of it are redundant and unnecessary.  Its really just sound after all, not material or anything tangible.  Large spaces are open in our rooms and basements that we have to fill with something else.