[James2001]

Audio's different though to visual media as it's the same music whether you hear it on the radio, a tape, a record or a potato.
Whether visual medium (like video/VHS and potentially DVD) make a comeback remains to be seen, but the variables on its quality are wider ranging.  Probably doesn't help that broadcasters seem to treat archive material in bad ways.

I guess that depends online music for years has mostly been lossy compression at often not brilliant bitrates (remember when 128kbps AAC was all the legal services offered- then wondered why people still pirated when they could get 320kbps, or even lossless, on there), only quite recently have some services started bringing in lossless- and touting it as a new, exciting product, often for a premium price, when it's literally just giving us the same quality CDs have been delivering for 40 years.

I guess only music online often only being lossy is similar to how interlaced TV content is really handled properly online, though admittedly that's a more noticable issue than the lossy compression, unless the bitrates really are horrendous.