![]() ![]() Bandcamp came on the scene in 2008, envisioned as a site where bands and indie musicians could legally sell their music digitally straight to fans. You could download music legally (MP3.com, Napster and other file-downloading sites were ordered to shut down or to reinvent themselves without copyright infringement). In 2003, Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, soon responsible for 70% of sales of digital music. MP3.com had been founded in 1997, with Napster, the popular file-sharing site, starting two years later. The iPod, as Greg Joswiak, the senior vice-president of worldwide marketing at Apple, said to the BBC, " redefined how music discovered, listened to, and shared." It helped power the digital music boom, which was already exploding. You could download tunes from bands that didn't even have an album yet or that never would ( Agatha Parker Sterling, I've never forgotten you). You could carry it with you and live with it for a while. You didn't have to buy a whole CD or even EP to take a chance on a new band. It also meant your library – even your musical tastes - might expand. The iPod meant you could take your whole music library with you at all times. No longer did you need to cart around dozens of CDs in heavy binders, their plastic cases always shattering or needing bulky storage, or to carefully choose only a selection of CDs before car trips (hope you're happy listening to David Bowie for eight hours!). ![]() When the first iPod came on the market in 2001, it was a remarkable device, capable of storing 1,000 songs, which seemed like a lot. Trust the shuffle, my friends would say. We used the random function as a kind of oracle. ![]()
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