After the last house moving lug of the CDs and vinyl, I only buy digital music now (I'm still luddite enough to buy it, rather than stream). Which does make me a bit sad because I genuinely did enjoy the vinyl experience (oh, I know that sounds wrong, but let's leave that aspect in the bedroom/sex dungeon [delete as inappropriate]). As a design nerd, I loved the artwork and typography and there was something just satisfying about putting an LP on the platter, spinning it up and dropping the needle in the grove. Even flipping the record was the intermission of the audio world and you were allowed to have a favourite side. As said, you made a commitment when putting an album on, it was too much palaver to play a single track. I like to think that this aspect reduced the amount of filler on albums, but that might indeed be nostalgia. Compilations, of course, were diligently made on C90 as were copies for the Walkman. Home taping killed music, of course. Completely dead.
That said, I couldn't take my vinyl to university as my parents did have a car, which meant I could take what I could carry on the train, so it was mostly C90 copies and compilations. They saw me through university, and by the time I started my PhD, CDs were the thing, the future thing. You could spread jam on them. I don't know why. Possibly they're marginally more edible than Pop Tarts.
To be honest, they were always a bit crap. The artwork and typography was squirrelled down a size that made it mostly pointless and once you'd got over deck-comes-out-deck-goes-in it wasn't very exciting. Of course, there were more LEDs to make up for it but I generally don't trust things that glow in the dark unless they're analogue. I used to have a top-loading VCR that displayed secret messages quite possibly from the Devil herself. Disquieting when you're trying to watch Cops. CDs were dull and practical like sensible shoes and you knew there was always a clear and present danger of Brothers in Arms. Copies could spontaneously generate in any early-to-mid 90s CD player left unattended. They eventually solved the problem.
Until you get enough of CDs that carting them between houses is an effort and then you find the best place to keep them is the garage because you've turned everything to mp3 and aac anyway. I can't remember the last time I played an actual CD. I still often feel duty bound to listen to the entire album though.