"Consider that the biggest-selling CD box set remains Columbia Records' 1990 reissue of Delta blues genius Robert Johnson's recordings—a landmark moment that moved this cornerstone artist into the 20th century mainstream. Streaming services such as Spotify also carry the Johnson collection (of course without any of the recording information or historical context available in the liner notes) but it's only available to them because someone assembled it for the CD. It's fine, but there's no fun in it."
Marc Weingarten at the Los Angeles Times writes that "it might be a good moment to acknowledge that the compact disc had more impact on music than we care to admit, and that it can still provide us with pleasure even now."
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