I have a collection of 800+ backups!
With the compact disc turning 25 years old and all this talk about declining CD sales, why don’t we just rebrand CDs to the purpose they serve now — backups?
That’s the reason I still buy CDs. Reliable as my hard drive has been all these years, I’m still very wary of all the things that could wipe it clean, including human error. If I like an album I got from eMusic or from the Evil Sharing Networks, I’m going to get a CD to insure against hard drive failure. (The albums about which I’m lukewarm get the CD-R treatment.)
Premium backups — yeah, that has a nice ring to it.