'Do you still own a CD player(Or insert turn table, cassette player etc)?'

Actually, I'm not specifically asking for an answer to the above question although, please, free to give one if you wish.

The purpose of this thread is to question the notion and assumption that people don't own such items any more or should have *dispensed with them* by now.

Of course, most the younger people don't use this technology and that's maybe to be expected. However, I find it irritating when I visit my local folk club or go to a concert where most of the audience are of a "certain age"(Gregg Wallace) and the compere or artists comes out with a naff comment such as "Do any of you still have a CD player?"!

I always reply, "Of course, why wouldn't I?"

After all, I'm not going to throw out my several hundred(minimum estimate) CDs and vinyl records (I still have few 78s too and a turntable to play them on) just because they have gone out of fashion. It would be an endless task to digitise them all too although I usually take copies of any new CD etc recordings I buy these days.

Yet, many people don't seem to have them now or hold on to such things. Indeed the trend seems to be towards "Minimalism" for many people. I see that when I visit other houses, bars, restaurants etc.
In my case, it's always been just short of "clutter" but not quite.
I do, of course, have "clear outs" from time to time but my music collection, "equipment", and instruments will be the last to go.

How do you all feel about this?