COMMENT As major supermarkets announce an an end to CD sales, Pat Kane looks back at his loathing of the format and whether he was too swift in embracing digital PING! I remember the day I fell out of love with the compact disc. The recording would have been a beloved vinyl classic, revived anew to me in this format (mostly likely Stevie Wonder or John Coltrane or The Blue Nile). Going from gatefold sleeve to beermat-sized was bathetic. But for the sake of playing it on my CD walkman, which was beatifying my dull pedestrian life, I could bear the reduction. The original LP cover was on a wee booklet of lyrics and notes, miniaturised behind the plastic screen.