YouTube - type in Panic! at the Disco as I fancied watching their 'I Write Sins...' video. The first option to come up was the video for 'This Is Gospel', a newly released single from their upcoming album. Attached to the video are the options to preorder the album or to watch the other released video which is for 'Miss Jackson', and with the thought it mind that one song was not enough to make me wish to preorder an album, I chose to watch the second video. At which point I then figured that yes, I need this album on my iTunes. Click the link, iTunes opens, select 'preorder' and wait. Now as each single is released, they will be added to my library.
Is it just me that is astonished with the ease with which it is to do these things? The way that just from typing in one song, I can preorder an album that I wasn't even aware was to be released. The speed with which information is sent to us through the internet can only speed up the exponential growth of the music industry, with more platforms and bigger, worldwide platforms upon which music is released. Even amateur musicians can make a name for themselves both through YouTube or making music on SoundCloud.
And the most amazing thing about this is that YouTube is only 8 years old! And SoundCloud is only 6! Infact, the internet itself only became domestic in the early 90's and yet now it dominates all day to day life, from reading books to watching films, from chatting to classmates to chatting to that Australian friend you met in America on holiday 3 years ago.
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