[spacefish]

As someone who can actually remember when there was nothing but vinyl (there was reel-to-reel but one didn't generally purchase music that way anymore) and 8-track (available only in car stereos as I first remember them), I would have to say CD. I loved to sit home and listen to my Queen records but I couldn't take them with me to the city or to school. Well, I could but who was gonna lend me a record player?

8-tracks were silly things that cut off songs mid-verse and I never understood why people liked them but they were portable and once home players started to pop up, the 8-track collections grew (some of my school friends hugged their 8-tracks while I stayed home listening to my records).

It took me a long time to get off the (auto-reverse) cassette bandwagon (but for some reason I knew DVDs would eventually replace laserdiscs in mainstream digital video), but having finally made the switch to CDs, I couldn't be happier. Now that I only listen to music on my computer, I'm finally venturing into even more portable formats but I'll be hard pressed to change back to vinyl, even with a diamond-tipped needle.