I bought quite a few CDs - more than a dozen, before buying a CDP, as I didn't want to have just one or two discs to play.
The first were mainly old favourites: Fischer Dieskau singing Schubert Lieder, accompanied by Brendel; John Martyn Solid Air; Schwartzkopf/Szell Strauss Vier Letzte Lieder. Funnily enough the original vinyl has lasted at least as well as well as the CDs if not better, the John Martyn is quite discoloured and skips a bit, while all three jewel cases are far more worn than their equivalent LP sleeves (my John Martyn goes back to the mid 70s). All are still favourites.
My first CDP was a £300 Denon of some sort, about 1989. (Prior to that I was on record as believing it would never catch on - the fact that all you heard at hifi dealers was Dire Straits and DSOM didn't help - plus ca change ...). The Denon was ok but I never warmed to CD that much at the time, it was just less engaging somehow. The LP12 and my vinyl were in storage twice, when I went off to NZ for a few years in the early 00s, and a few years later in the mid 90s to early 00s when the kids were small, so CDs got a thrashing then.
Funnily enough I kept buying vinyl I couldn't play all through this time ... it was fill your boots, as all the fashionistas were getting rid to go digital - I recall picking up a whole bunch of jazz in NZ, four for a dollar - an NZ dollar at that time was about 40p - so I had a lot of listening to catch up on when I the TT back out, when my youngest was about 4.