CD Collections: When Music Was Physical

Your CD tower was a status symbol. Each disc was a $15-20 investment. You'd buy an album for one hit song and discover three better songs you'd never heard on the radio.

Scratched CDs taught you to handle things with care. Disc changers that held 5 CDs felt like living in the future. Today's streaming libraries are vast but soulless. Our CD collections? They told our story.