The irrelevance of the CD. (Score 2, Insightful)

Let me see if I understand this...

I pay for a CD player that automatically writes my music to a hard drive, and then automatically retrieves the album information from the Internet. I can thus play the music off of the hard drive, instead of using the CD.

Why even bother buying a CD if its sole purpose is as a transfer medium? This portends the obsolesence of the compact disc...