Fortunately, the "you need to upgrade your player" argument doesn't work for consumer CD players. The CD format will be around for a while yet, and people who make music will still be distributing on that media. For the forseeable future, we're still going to have an unencrypted, unprotected, non-lossy source for music. Sure you can't do a direct-purchase-and-download of that media, but the physical media purchase is part of the beauty of it.