Let's get physical, physical... or do you prefer digital?

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I tend to go for the physical CD/DVD, but I'm warming up to the 'anywhere electronic'. CD/DVDs get scratched, and you don't get a free new copy. I've ripped some rare CDs to my hard drive for safer keeping. Even safer would be uploaded to a "Cloud" database, as hard drives go bad too. As far a movies go, if you don't mind foregoing the DVD' extras, having a fresh copy at a 'Amazon' is not a bad deal.

Any business can go out of business, but it isn't likely, and you can download your purchased electronic media files too.

I did purchase an electronic music album from passalong.com, which went out of business. Now no known program will play the music files (media player, rhaspsody, itunes) because they can't get the rights from passalong.com (because it doesn't exit). Luckily for me, I put it on a CD before it happened. Either way, it's not a big deal. It's just one CD.