Why CD players so expensive when the fomat is dead

Still have NEVER downloaded a song. CD is alive and well in my home and car.

3000 CDs and counting...use a MAC pro and dac/headphone amp for my headphone rig. CD dead ? - what a laugh. Its a format that will be around for atleast another 20 years in some way or another. If the downloading crap takes off bigtime with audiophiles... the ones resisting the change will still be able to buy CDs on Ebay and the net for decades to come if they are happy with the sound.

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CD format dead? . . . That means I am now officially a perverted and obsessive necrophiliac? Oh my goodness. . . and my Mom thought she raised me to be a good boy!

LOL!!!

Here's what I found at this web page:
http://www.marketingcharts.com/interactive/music-stats-for-2009-fab-four-king-of-pop-among-top-selling-artists-11620/nielsen-music-sales-highlights-type-2009png/

For 2009 in the US:

295,000,000 cds were sold
76,400,000 digital download albums were sold
2,500,000 vinyl LPs were sold

Single track digital downloads were 1.16 billion

So I'd say the cd is still doing OK.