Accessibility is the key term for what the World Wide Web means to the music industry.
Fans can download entire albums and rare recordings in mere seconds.
The nights of being confined to one s bedroom , waiting for a rock radio station halfway around the world to come in to tune have been replaced with the glow of a computer screen, and typing back and forth with someone in Italy who agrees with the way the new Radiohead album moves you. The Internet has even spawned an entire new language for music fans. Years ago, as society, we were totally new to words like MP3, Napster and CD burner. Artists websites have become a haven for their fans, and the equivalent of a coffee-house chat over Bob Dylan s latest album. Focusing on three specific bands from very different backgrounds, web surfers can see the effect the immediacy and closeness of the Internet has on its fans.