This generation will never enjoy the circle of friends passing around the album covers, seeing the artwork, reading all the liner notes and lyrics and band members, etc. When albums gave way to CD's, I lamented the small images and lack of space to read about the performers and their work. Music used to be a shared group experience and now it is listened to in isolation for the most part, and now without the information and artwork records had. I still do not own an ipod.