![]() ![]() Soon these sites would soon include online radio stations such as SomaFM, Slacker Radio, DI, and many other stations. Pandora, 8Track, IHeart Music, and many other music sites offer music based on users interests in music artist or songs. In the wake of these retailers demises, open access to music burgeoned as online music applications and websites began to emerge and compete with one another. Raised on these music stores as both primary destinations to purchase music and casual spaces to hangout at with friends, Generation X was left wanting for another method of buying and experiencing music. Both ended a long, successful enterprise of running retail music stores. This let to the rapid end of music stores like Tower Music and Wherehouse Music. With the rapid rise and fall of Napster, music lovers realized that both music could be downloaded onto a computer without purchasing anything at a store and could be stored on computers, mp3 players, and smart phones. ![]() ![]() Brought up on Rock & Rock, R & B, Hip Hop, Alternative Rock, Metal, Jazz, Techno, and many other sounds, Generation X would be the first generation in a long time to see the sudden and dramatic evolution of the music business and the methods that music could be enjoyed. If the 90’s were a decade when Generation X migrated from adolescents into adulthood, then the 2000’s were a decade where this generation blossomed and began to truly influence the world. The first decade of the 21 st century was an amazing and creative period. ![]()
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