Getting Music Online

Technology today has taken leaps forward when it comes to playing and listening to music.  In my life time alone I have owned and used vinyl records, cassette tapes, compact discs and now just recently purchased an MP3 player for the first time.  I am realizing that now the compact discs that I own are virtually a thing of the past and they have been put away into storage.  I have also shifted from purchasing music from local stores to browsing online sites such as the free ares download sites to find the files and album that I have been looking for.  This means the songs get stored on my computer and transferred to my MP3 player so I can carry around large quantities of music in one small storage device!