With the advent of CDs, is not the running order less important than it possibly once was?

The only time I may play all the tracks in order, is the first time I play it and even then I may not stick rigidly to this. The days when you used to play records so often that when one track was finished - the next one automatically came into your head, are long gone.

Sometimes I find that I have been so brainwashed by this that hearing a familiar song (like The Beatles or Bob Dylan) on the radio - I get really 'ratty' when the track I expect next, is not played.....Perhaps it is a good idea that CDs have changed all this?

Perhaps I am alone in this but if folk are playing the tracks in the order they choose to (or at random) it is maybe just good to place the tracks on at random?