said by Slidetbone:CD's produced from digital recordings are a great blessing! These do not alter the master medium. So it is a good thing.
Audiophiles for the most part do not go for digital downloads because the format is lossy, even if it is an MP3 at 320kbps. For an MP3 to me manageable for downloads, digital "holes" are poked into the file. You lose a lot of frequencies.
A normal listener will not care one way or another.
While digital masters can be a good thing many Rock / Pop CDs made in the past decade have terrible mastering with little or no dynamic range. People who mostly listen to mp3s probably don't notice or care but audiophiles will. Maybe if the CDs produced in the past decade were of better quality many more people would have noticed the audio deficiencies of the mp3.
