Rolling out the classics!
It took me a while to be honest, but I have to admit I’m now pretty much infatuated with the Internet. You can buy books, DVDs, and jewellery online, but what’s so particularly brilliant is the opportunity to listen to music without having to pay for it. Obviously for quite a while this was a bit dodgy, what with sites like Napster and Pirate Bay attracting millions of users, but it’s starting to feel like the “legit” end of the music industry has caught up, and there are now some very decent and perfectly legal ways of listening to music.
When I first started to use the internet for musical purposes I figured I’d use it mostly to check out new bands and new music - you know, log onto their MySpace page and listen to the odd demo or three. And I’ve definitely done that, in fact I’ve done it in spades. But above all, I’ve used the internet to listen out to hundreds of thousands of back-catalogue tracks that I probably would never have bought in a traditional record store. At the moment, as I write this, I’m listening to a Creedence Clearwater Revival compilation that I bought through iTunes (someone bought me some vouchers for my birthday a couple of months ago). In a sec I need to listen to some of Bellini’s opera Norma for work (don’t ask why). Then I might listen to the new Death Cab for Cutie album - it’s got to be online somewhere, right?
Yep, the Internet is a properly amazing thing!
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