Do you remember your first Compact Disc?

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Do you remember your first CD purchase?

25 years ago I picked up,

1. Paul McCartney's Tug of War
2. Willie Nelson's Stardust
and 3. Wagner's Tannenhauser

The CDs were purchased at the Tower Records in Mountain View, CA. and still play fine.

Aging in an era of digital downloads, CD celebrates 25th anniversary

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) - It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany.

An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads.

Those first CDs contained Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony and would sound equally sharp if played today, says Holland's Royal Philips Electronics NV, which jointly developed the CD with Sony Corp. of Japan.

The recording industry thrived in the 1990s as music fans replaced their aging cassettes and vinyl LPs with compact discs, eventually making CDs the most popular album format.

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