My gf works for a video game publisher. They had been cutting their staff related to making physical boxes and collectors editions for the past several years in the belief that everything was going digital.
She was telling me earlier the trend was reversing and now customers are showing more of a bias towards physical purchases, so the company is starting to hire more people back to that side and froze hiring on the digital side.
Just wanted to let people in here know since gamers are reacting against the "you vill own nothing and you vill be happy" industry with their wallets and the publishers are starting to notice.
Cds can be found cheap, and if you rip them in the right format they even sound nicer than MP3s. A lot of times it's even cheaper than buying the albun digitally as well. I still buy CDs every now and again, and I use the files to listen to music on my phone. It's really not a outdated format, people are just too lazy to use it.