Lossless and not-compressed aren't the same thing.

All CDs have dynamically-compressed sound. The skill of the engineer is to compress the sound to get the thing to play on typical home or car hifis without it sounding too unnatural but with everything between ppp and fff audible without having to turn the volume up too high.

What's more lamentable is the modern-day acceptance of low bitrate MP3 sound. It's alleged that the average person can't hear the difference between MP3 and CD-quality sound. Well it isn't hard. Great if you're in the car. Crap if you're listening privately at home to classical music. My hearing is gradually going so I suppose it won't matter to me after a few more years, but it matters now! Anyone who can't hear a difference between 128kbps MP3 and the original CD sound has cloth ears.