the E V O L U T I O N of buying music

To buy music one used to have to physical go to the record store, purchase a record, take it home and listen to it on their record player. The right way to listen to the record was to listen to the entire thing from front to back - similar to reading a book. Buying a single song was not even an option, you simply bought the entire album.

Next came the compact cassette in 1963. This introduced a whole new phenomenon - people could now listen to their music in the car or on the go. This also started the ever so trendy shoulder boombox fad where all of the cool kids carried their music around on their shoulder, blowing out their eardrums.

After the cassette came the compact disc. It was like a mini record that could be played anywhere at any time. It produced the most crisp clear sound anyone had heard before, and for the first time in history, you could simply skip a song. You could choose whatever song you wanted to listen to without having to guess where you were at like with records or cassettes. The CD really changed the way people listened to their music.

MP3 players were next in line to make an appearance. Now multiple albums could be stored onto one small portable musical device. This allowed people to listen to more than one artist in one outting, and be able to skip around between artists or albums as much as they wanted. MP3 players have now evolved into the ever so popular iPod.

Music nowadays is purchased mostly online, through iTunes or other similar music apps. Consumers can buy one song at a time or an entire album. Spotify, Rhapsody, and Apple Music allow people to pay a yearly fee for unlimited access to any music they want. The world of purchasing and listening music has change an increadible amount over the last century, and it is only going to continue.