Quote - ...can still smell the black vinyl wrapper it had, and the sheer wonder I felt when I saw those postcards!  ...

I can remember the smell of a new album and several of my favorite albums. I remember when album art was important and when inserts, lyric sheets, sleeves... all that was part of the package. Music was a "physical" thing. You had the album, could see the art, read the lyrics and inserts, look at the inside photos, if it had any, and sometimes they even put in special gifts to their fans. (Cheech & Chong's extra-large rolling paper... I still have mine. :D )

Today, all that physicality is gone. Owning one piece of music isn't any different than another.

PC Games are getting that way, too. No cloth maps, figurines, knick-knacks, foldouts, manuals or anything like that, these days. (Unless you plop down the $100 for the average "Collector's Edition."