See also: boxed sets.
Remember the long box? A friend had started covering one wall with his and I was like, “ah! I could’ve kept those!”
Our 8th-grader mostly listens via streaming, but for favorite artists/releases she’ll plunk down for the CD. (As often as not, these have to be found via eBay, even though none of them are more than a few years old.) Then she doesn’t open them - they go on a shelf for display. She’s more of a collector than I am! (I’ll almost always open & listen to what I buy)
The 12th-grader, meanwhile, listens to Siriusly Sinatra or 40s Junction…