[Cadaverous Pallor]

USB sticks don't quite do it for you?

It's an interesting question, whether we could do without a disc drive. The only thing I've used ours for in recent years is ripping CDs I've borrowed from the library, or burning discs for friends (where a laying-around-freebie-USB stick could do just fine if they were actually present in my house). Hard to fit cover art on the outside, as € knows, but outside of a mix CD swap party, I don't see it being a problem for me. Everything via email or dropbox or whatever.

Yeah, the only issue I'd have is with "stealing" music from the library, and I could afford to actually buy things, if I had to.