Overpriced vinyl is having a moment but for listeners of a certain age there was nothing to compare with the upgrade when we traded in our worn-out cassette tapes for compact discs Radiohead with an array of CDs that were popular in the 1990s It is a memory forever engraved on my brain. My first journalism pay-cheque, from the autumn of 1995, was spent as soon as the funds landed in my bank account and the teller handed over a wad of £20 notes. It was straight into that long-gone Dublin institution, Peats of Parnell Street, to buy a Sony Discman, an object I had coveted for years.
That moment came back to me when I read that the CD player in cars is dead. No major manufacturer includes them any more, according to consumer magazine Which?, and in truth, many of us haven’t used them in our own, older cars for years. Streaming, of course, changed everything; now, I usually tee up a new song or album with the words, “Hey Siri, play.
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