Jim Carroll wrote:-
Rod Stradling has intimated that the general situation has influenced his sales of Traditional CDs - 3 cds sold of England's finest source singer.

Rod is also aware that the world has continued to change in the last few years and has fairly recently instituted digital downloads of all his CDs and as far as I know they are doing rather well. See his editorial post for 30/12/18 at http://www.mustrad.org.uk/editor.htm
I don't have a modern car but ones that I have been in are no longer fitted with a CD player; just a socket to plug in your iPod, phone or other digital device.
Banging on about CD sales is about as productive as statements about the sole importance of British folk clubs.
I believe that I am quite a few years older than you, Jim, but I am still trying hard to live as though it is 2019.