Comparing Pandora's Rock And Roll

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“It was so long ago you bought singles.” Elon University Professor of Economics Dr. Steven Wagner said after attempting to recall the first album he ever purchased. He described the old fashioned “Single Store” from his youth in the suburbs of Chicago as a, “very primitive thing to iTunes.” Today, records stores are a thing of the past. Anyone with an internet connection can purchase a song or an entire album off many different music downloading services. Thanks to different inventions, Wagner no longer needs to travel to a store to get his music. He is in a group of 81.5 million active users of the Pandora internet radio streaming service. Pandora is all about finding the consumer music that they love in fact part of their mission statement …show more content…

With over 200 million records sold and over 2,000 concerts over a career of 50 years, the Rolling Stones are one of the most successful bands to come from that era. So successful in fact that they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and continue to perform to this day. Thanks to many loyal fans, tickets for their tours sell out within minutes of release, causing ticket prices today to skyrocket. While many dedicated fans empty their wallets today to see this legendary band, Wagner had the fortune of seeing them during their first tour in the United States, in fact it was his first ever concert. While many fans wish they could have seen that historic tour, he had experience much different than one would expect. “They were late and we were just waiting, Patti LaBelle & the Blue Bells was the warm-up band nobody cared, huge crowd you could hear the first notes at the beginning of route 66 from that point on it was nothing but screaming you couldn’t hear another thing.” While he the concert may have been a waste in terms of an opportunity to listen to music, he still felt it was fun to be there. While not a frequent concert attendee today, his first experience did not ruin that type of gathering for him. In fact, he attended a different Rolling Stone concert later in his

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