Another reason to stop buying CDs. It ain't green.

Who tosses em?
I still have well over 1000 vinyl albums, and several thousand CD's. I would guess the number of CD's I have thrown away, since CD's were invented, is under 10.

I guess if you live your entire life buying cheap chinese disposable consumer items, throwing them away, and buying more, than CD's could maybe be a small part of your waste flow- but really, the average person tosses far more fast food wrappers, plastic soda bottles, $5 t shirts and $40 DVD players that break after 1 year.

As a general philisophical point, I agree that we should buy fewer, better things, and keep em for longer. Hence my listening to the original "Exile from Guyville" the other day.

But as a music consumer, I dont trust digital as my only storage medium. All hard drives puke sooner or later. I guess I could be leapfrogging my backups, buying multiple hard drives and storing my music collection on duplicate drives- but thats a lot of management. Its easier, and safer, just to buy the CD, rip it immediately, and then store it for the next time I need to rip it when my I-pod dies, or my Mac goes Sad Face on me.
Digital media and formats are actually becoming obsolete faster than analog ones- you can still buy a working 8 track tape player, but early DOS computers- forget it.