Just curious to know whether anyone was saddened to see new album and single releases on vinyl rapidly disappear from stores from around 1992-93 onwards, or were glad to see the back of them in favour of CDs, which were/are far more convenient, and of course, sonically superior in the opinions of the vast majority, especially at the time?

I personally was saddened, as despite CDs being technically superior (in most instances) and more convenient, they simply lacked the tangible tactile experience of carefully removing the records from their sleeves without touching the grooves, loading them onto the player, and hearing that elusive stylus plop when setting down on the run-in groove at the start of a record side, plus seeing the records themselves and their centre labels rotating on the turntable during play.

Most ironically, the wheel seems to have come full circle (pardon the pun) with the vinyl revival over the past 15 years or so, and CDs now generally becoming less popular, all of which most certainly would have been considered unthinkable some 20 years ago.