"We could have just played a CD and no one would have been any the wiser".
Related: UK top 10 albums of 2014 are all by British artists for first time Taylor said that the slide in British CD sales, precipitated by the rise of illegal downloads and digital sales and streaming, appeared to be slowing.
Or disruptive like REM's Peter Buck, who attempted to play a CD on the hostess trolley, sat next to a passenger and insisted she was his wife – she wasn't – raided bottles from the galley after he had been told he couldn't have any more booze and threw yoghurt over everyone?
"But it made the world aware of that one particular style of Cuban music, and to me the project is so much bigger than them, it was more than just a CD.
Sales have perversely benefitted from the decline in popularity of physical music – as online streaming becomes the norm, eating into the download market, as well as still-declining CD sales, vinyl becomes an attractive format for object fetishists and committed fans.
CD album sales fell 7.9% last year, having seen falls of 19.5% in 2012, and 12.8% in 2013.
A CD of the music was released by the Nash last month, and next weekend comes the climax: a heart-stopping piece of history as they take the music "home", to Prague; to play in the Czech capital these great works written by Czech composers interned and doomed to the gas chambers; shoots of genius – and heralds of a great movement in modern music that never was.
Oinkers uploaded their own CD collections, and the CD collections of their friends.
Self-flagellation was seen at its most merciless in last weekend's For The Record column in the Observer, where readers' editor Stephen Pritchard was characteristically stern in taking a classical CD reviewer to task for praising an oboist for his "almost 40 minutes of continuous solo" in Vaughan Williams's oboe concerto – in reality "the piece lasts barely 20 minutes", he pointed out scornfully.
She doesn't spend much, drives a 1998 Mustang, buys the occasional CD by Radiohead, the occasional book by Tom Wolfe, watches a lot of DVDs.
It launched the first CD player – the CDP-101 – in 1982 Sony moved into Hollywood in 1989 with the $3.4bn £2.2bnn) purchase of Columbia Pictures, renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1991.
