Like vinyl lps....I like to have my purchase in my hand to look at.
I like to take out the printed material and look at it...my kids have I-pods, but they take them off CD's. I may go the I-Pod route so as to consolidate my music into one easy to activate source, but I do believe I will buy the CD's for downloading purposes.
My CD buying days were over this year, after I bought my handy TEAC 350. This baby easily converts my 1000+ Lp's to CD. Everytime I burn one , I say good riddance to the RIIA, or whaterver those ah's call themselves.