What are you listening to?

[Nung]

Well yeah, we started that kind of thing in the 70's out of necessity...we would race home with the new vinyl, put it on the turntable, clean it, fire up the cassette recorder, and then we would mostly play the cassette when listening to the record. This way, we saved the vinyl for occassional play and recording.

Now it makes sense to do similar things with CDs...not so much because we would wear out the thing (like vinyl) but more for convenience (as others have said, above).