I havent bought a cd in 6 yrs, ever since I had two of those old case logic binders filled w/ CD's(~400) stolen. I do not feel that CD's are a good investment anymore. 400 x 14.95 = 5980. That is almost $6000 that was stolen from me in a matter of seconds. Now I can get the same music for free and not have to woory about it getting stolen. Also I can carry less cd's w/ me, right know I have a small case w/ only 20 cd's in it(saves space).
Right now I use Azureus on the bittorrent networks to download entire albums and discographies(all cd's a band has put out). All of these are at 320k or VBR, I won't download anything else.