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Whether it’s the CD’s glossy, iridescent appearance or the intimate liner notes tucked into every jewel case, the compact disc maintains a certain appeal among young music buyers and collectors.

The Mauritshuis in The Hague is one of the world’s much-loved museums, a jewel case for such artistic gems as Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring” and Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.”

“CoComelon,” the gaudiest diamond in this jewel case, has 134 million YouTube subscribers — the second largest channel on the site — and was watched for a total of 33 billion minutes last year, Nielsen reported, more than “Squid Game” and “Bridgerton” combined.

They would put out these double cassettes — that was always kind of shocking to me to see this extra-large jewel case, two pieces inside the flyer, the date that it came from, and so on.

Starting in the 1900s, billions of dollars of infrastructure basically evolves — whether it’s jewel case manufacturers or trucking companies or brick-and-mortar retail — all this infrastructure evolved to basically help artists put their art on a physical object and then ship that physical object around the world to consumers who would purchase it and then enjoy the art.