Same: MDs were so cool for their time. I have japanese family and MD was big there, so every time my brother would visit me, he'd bring back fancy tech. One year the fancy tech was lots of MDs and two MD players.

Everything about it was so cool: the form factor, they were satisfying to manipulate, the portable players were cool. So were the "full sized" players/recorders you could hook up to your HiFi / stereo stack.

I'd rip CDs to MDs and for years and years MDs were my goto medium for music (nowadays I rip CDs to FLAC files and sent these FLAC files to a DAC). The discs were often good looking too (sadly I never had these glowing in the dark ones!).