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CDs just don’t have that “collector’s item” characteristic (yet?). Physical album sales are low enough nowadays that enthusiasts that are looking for a specific medium probably make up a very large portion of the buyers.
It's more that a CD is just a physical copy of a digital file. Buying a CD and buying a mp3 file are basically the same. People buy records because they have this idea that "analog sounds better"(despite modern record players being digital as well - it's the tubes, not just the record, that made it analog)
I'm convinced that "analog sounds better" is just an inaccurate way people describe preferring the experience of listening to a record, and they just can't articulate that what they really like is the tactile ceremony of loading it in the player or looking at large-format album art or something like that. Surely nobody actually believes that less accurate sound reproduction is somehow an improvement.
It’s fake nostalgia of an era they never experienced. Vinyls always sounded like shit but we had no comparison except the better sound of movie theaters, but you couldn’t have that at home.
Then the audio CD appeared and it was like the second coming of Jesus. The sound was really a hundred times better than vinyls, even with the same set of amps and speakers.
One day they’ll tell us that VHS on a small black and white TV is better than a 4K movie on a giant screen.