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It is a pleasure to possess music as an object.  The object can be art as well, the art on an album cover, for example.   Even if music is a crappy mp3, you HAVE it, you OWN it.
Music should not be dependant on an internet connection, a commercial relationship, a personal account or a credit card.
Tapes and CD's >

The greatest thing about it is the limited nature of the media. You can't just do infinite skipping of songs. You have to listen. >

this reminds me of a time i was driving two friends out for a night out when we were younger. it was right around when ipods were new. this girl gets in my car and i have my CD playing and she's like "oh i have my ipad we can listen to my music!" (i didn't ask or invite you to do that ...?) but i acquiesced because she was a friend of a friend and i was trying to be polite.
what happened next was a 30 minute drive where she changed songs every 30-45 seconds. "oh i like this song! oh i like this song! oh i like this song!" fuck just leave it on ONE song please!!