I like to think that I can see the day coming when the music companies will
be selling 2.8224 MHz audio with 5.1 surround sound exclusively. Memory is
cheap and you can now get 8 gigabytes on a card the size of a dime. They
already have 5.1 surround sound headphones. This would give the big music
companies another chance at unbreakable encryption that would once again put
them in their king of the hill position. Once the consumer was spoiled with
such high quality sound coming through their ipods they would never again be
satisfied with mp3.
That would still leave us without the album jacket artwork, which was a big
part of the fun of vinyl. But, witness what Trent Reznor did with his
"ultra-deluxe limited edition package" of Ghosts I-IV. This even though
you could have gotten the same music for five bucks!
http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options 
