“New studies show that young people have little interest in owning prepackaged music when just about every recording they want can be had as a download. For people stricken with the collecting disease, this plastic-free vision of the future sounds a little alarming. Sure, we smirked when Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin was urged to go into plastics in “The Graduate.” But we’ve really come to love our plastic, especially when it contains the audio and visual stimulation we crave.”