Even in the 90s, the idea of fitting every album you owned on a pocket-sized portable device was straight out of The Jetsons. The advent of digital music did more than reinvent the music industry, it forced music fans and collectors to forget everything they knew about music ownership – where their collection lives, what form it takes and how to access it. By now it’s hard to remember a time when you only owned an album if you could hold the physical copy.
