Are audio CDs retro yet? Options

[polemon]

Feel free to move on to another topic, as this idea crossed my mind just now.

CD's are being sold since 1982, so I'd like to take this as the 'starting point' of the (Audio) Compact Disc.
Now, that's actually thirty years ago. Most of us probably didn't notice this. Anyway, since audio CD's are actually pretty old, and there is alternative recording technology around by now, are CD's actually retro yet?

You know, I was thinking about setting up a retro sound system, and my first though was acquiring a record turntable / radio combo from the 70's. I was talking this over with a friend who has a Grundig turntable / radio combo, where the turntable was actually manufactured by Dual. It is made in 1972 or so. Now we were talking about my idea, and we agreed I should add a tape deck, since reel to reel would be probably too expensive. Now, the next idea was a full size MiniDisc player, and - well a Compact Disc player, since they are actually older than MiniDisc.

Even though CD's kinda "feel" modern, they're actually pretty old-school by now. Using CD's in those stand-alone players from the early 1990's is almost as retro as using audio tapes or Vinyl records, I think.

I'd like to have your thoughts on this...

EDIT:

The CD player in my car can read audio CD's and CDROM's, but it seems to be very picky about the CDROM's. I usually end up burning audio CD's for my car. This was actually what brought all that up, since my friend mentioned to me, that he still uses tapes in his car.

This post has been edited by polemon: Mar 13 2012, 11:33

[pdq]

Have you ever actually seen a CD with CD-Text? The only ones that I ever saw were ones that I made myself.