Yeah I've got CDs easily twice that age that still play fine in my car. So it's bullshit - unless there was a big fall in manufacturing standards in recent years.
someday, hipsters will think cds are as cool as cassettes.
Is there a limit to the kind of technology that hipsters will fetishize, do you think? I mean, RAM must be verging on being so cheap now, and even 4G/5G phone services so quick, that surely there will soon be little motivation to use heavy file compression on music? So if in the near future everyone is listening to everything in glorious .wav or .flac, will there be some retro caché to MP3, like the way people talk about the 'warm analogue crackle' of vinyl?