It happened so fast: The record stores no longer had LPs, they had CDs. You couldn’t put a needle on them. You had to go out and buy expensive equipment to play them with, and they were expensive, too — sometimes twice the price of LPs (but with more minutes of music, usually).

“No problem,” you said. “I don’t have to surrender to this new technology. I’ll just keep my record collection, take extra-good care of it, and send away if the stylus breaks.”