Instrumental music has benefited from the closure of high street music retails

As sad as it has been to see the high street music retailer fade away in the past decade every cloud has a silver lining. For somebody like me, an instrumental music fan, it has been much more beneficial with the emergence of Itunes and sites like Amazon where it is very straight forward to find and purchase not only music that I am looking for but also further work by the same artist or similar artist. In short what I am saying it has given everybody the luxury of choice.

Of course it was nice to be able to take a trip to the record shop or to a store like the now obsolete Woolworths to make my music purchases but it was always a problem that for niche markets such as instrumental music or ambient music it meant searching the shelves for prolonged periods of time in the ‘other’ section only to find a very sparse arrangement to choose from.

With Itunes and Amazon being two of the key places for people to get music these days there is no longer such a problem. With people that are looking to buy niche market beign forced to look online they are going to find it easier get exactly what they are looking for and at the same time not being able to help seeing so much more variety which can only be a good thing as far as sales and exposure for the artists involved goes. There is also the choice of digital product or ordering CD’s between the two which again provides flexibility to the buyer.Digital music is clearly the future and perhaps it won’t be long at all until CD’s are as obsolete as the shops that used to sell them. But from a selfish point of view I am pleased that there is a wealth of instrumental music at my fingertips for now, the foreseeable future and beyond!