Amazon Music Downloads And CDs

Some readers will remember the joy of visiting a record store to listen to the latest records released by the pop stars of the day. There was a revolution in the music industry and the sort of music young people wanted to listen to was very different to the musical taste of the previous generation and the record store was the place to go to find out what was the latest thing in music.

The jukebox and music radio brought change and kids having the money to buy records for themselves changed our lives for good. No longer were we limited to hearing what people told us we should listen to. Now we had a choice and it was an exciting time to be living through with new singers and rock bands suddenly appearing on the scene and with each new type of rock band the music industry struggled to keep up with our increasing interests and aspirations..

Where once there was only record stores selling vinyl records now we have CDs and music downloads we can buy from Amazon. We can order any type of music available today and we can order it and either download MP3s directly or have a CD shipped to us within a matter of days.

The record industry took a while, many would say too long, to recognize the future of music included online music downloads. They resisted the idea and spent all their effort in pursuing illegal music downloaders in the courts. There were some pretty hefty penalties handed down to many people who made little, if any, financial gain from downloading illegal music files but that was how the music industry thought. Legal penalties were more important than their customers.

If you wanted to have music on an MP3 player you had to break the law in one way or another even if you had already bought the music on CD.

It took the record industry some time but they did eventually come around to the idea that their customers actually wanted to be able to play their music in digital form and they were prepared to pay for it as well.

Now, thanks to Amazon, we can buy either complete CDs and have them shipped to our homes or we can download individual music tracks at very reasonable prices for instant delivery over the internet.

We can have the music we want and when we want it. We can choose how and where we are able to play music. You can mix and match to your hearts content and have thousands of tracks on a small hand held digital music player.

The world of music has changed and after going through a few different formats with originally 78 rpm records, then 45s and LPs, and on through the CD revolution it would seem that digitally downloaded music is the format of choice and it is hard to see this changing again for many years into the future.