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I haven't bought a CD in a record store for YEARS, and I've really only bought a handful of CDs online in the same period.
Do you then mostly stream your music these days?
I mostly listen to my iTunes collection on my hard drive (I've transferred all of my CDs here) -- some 1500 albums worth. I also get a lot of digital promos that, if they're good, gets transferred in here. Finally, if I want to listen to new stuff, I do indeed use streaming services like Spotify.
Also, I haven't put on a CD in at least a couple of years. They're just standing on my shelf like a piece of furniture! 
Well, last CD I put in is still currently playing, so it's not been that long for me. (James Newton Howard's MALEFICIENT).
I use streaming, but not really for listening, just for "testing" if I'd like something.
I have most (though still not all) of my collection digitized and tagged as well, and I use AAC files for my car and my smartphone, and that's great.
But I haven't yet come around to set up my home stereo system for playing digital files. I am looking into various setups and options, but I still have to dig into what I want. iTunes has many flaws, but I still find it better than just about any other music player I tried. I have a big part of my collection converted to lossless, but I'm not sure about the best way to set up streaming at home. Still have to buy new stereo component parts one day, I know. :-)
In any case, I still buy new CDs (and in fact, still go to a record store to find something new while browsing, though of course it happens less these days). But if I really like something, I don't just want an MP3 or AAC, I want a lossless file I can convert for car and phone use and do with whatever I want (no DRM), so for me, it is still good ol' fashioned CD.
I wish I had a good home stereo setup for lossless file listening though. Does anyone have good suggestions?
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Thor clickbait.
It worked! 
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You actually found a record/CD store! Where?
There has been a significant resurgence in record stores over the past ten years or so. Have you not heard of Record Store Day?
LP's are re-surging. (When I was visiting Portlandia, I barely found cd's).
Not CD's so much, if the John Williams situation is any indication.
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DUPE POST.
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I still have the Cologne Saturn Music Dome( at my disposal, which once upon a now long gone time several floors full of records & CDs. They reduced their CD and record selection now to one floor, the rest of the space is now BluRays, DVDs, video games, (and two floors vanished and became office space or whatever) etc., but hey, it's still one floor of records & CDs... more than most other cities have to offer. They even carry Intrada releases like CONAN etc. And their vinyl section keeps growing.
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Geek update:
The two stores in Berkeley have copies of BFG, but only brand new, not used.
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Well at Amoeba recently, I saw a copy of the original release of A.I., but it wasn't as cheap as I'd like, so I passed it by.
Still no BFG's, no ROGUE ONE'S.
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I finally saw a used copy of THE FRANCHISE AWAKENS. Finally.
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Geek update:
The two stores in Berkeley have copies of BFG, but only brand new, not used.
In 2018, I imagine that the Venn Diagram of the sort of person who would shell out $18 for a new copy of The BFG on CD and the sort of person who would dump their score CDs at a used record store has to just be two isolated circles, miles apart.
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I've now seen THE FRANCHISE AWAKENS in the used bin twice, so you'd think THE BFG would be there by now.
Nope.
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I've now seen THE FRANCHISE AWAKENS in the used bin twice, so you'd think THE BFG would be there by now.
Nope.
I found the BFG in the library, listened to it. Pass.
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Time was when JW wrote something gigantic, a gigantic label put it out, a gigantic quantity got pressed, and after a year or so there'd be a bazillion copies in the used bin. No more.
This also seems to apply to JW piano anthologies (sheet music form). Not a one in the used bins. Dang.
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Lately I'm listening to a ton of him, the HARVEY POTTERS, the dino franchises and the RAIDERS dvd's I found.
Since these were great pop successes, the RAIDERS cd's are likely cheap now. But, fat chance I'll get to buy any of the RAIDERS, since the local cd stores are still closed. 
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