alt Hacker NewsNot for me, analog audio is bulky and expensive compared to whats available today. The choices I see are, pirate a decent collection to manage and store on my computer that I can load onto a phone or "dedicated mp3 player", pay money for a subpar streaming service, listen to free radio streams, or just pick one of the billion playlists off youtube. I keep 2 MP3 CDs in my car for the rare times im in deep BFE and don't have reliable service, but I doubt 99% of people experience even that these days.
Its the same hipstery thingie like LPs are with similar talk about quality, experience and whatnot. People still do it, heck people do a lot of seemingly weird stuff that is far from optimal behavior.
Who cares at the end, somebody likes gardening and somebody likes analog music thingies (that they usually didn't grow up with before - this seems to remove most of the lure of these gizmos).
There is that fact of another plastic stuff playing more (rather fragile) plastic stuff polluting the planet at the end, but since this will be fringe activity and many folks reuse their old collections its not the worst offender.