Music Industry before the Internet

The music industry before the up-rise in internet use, which would be around the time of 1996 onwards, was a much more successful  industry to be in back in the days prior to the internet. The reason why I say this is mainly because the generations that are here today are getting used to not having to pay for the music that is being put out there due to the easy access of pirated copies. This is making the music industry very hard to become wealthy in.
Going back to the beginning when music was first being used as a job in the entertainment business, people would gather to see the artist perform live. Back at this time the music would have been very orchestra based and people would then purchase the music they had seen in the form of musical notation for them to play in their own time. This evolved when the Gramophone came into use around 1877. This changed the way people listened to music and was revolutionary in the fact that people were now able to hear artist play their own pieces without going to see them in concert. This method of listening to music was around for a long time and advanced very slowly because the use of vinyl's to put the music onto was only upgraded in about the 1990's. This was around the time when CD's came into use and provided the public with a more 'compact' version of the vinyl aspect.
Soon after the creation of CD's there was then the product of portable CD players such as 'Walkman'. These revolutionised music because people where now able to listen to their music wherever they wanted as long as they had a CD to play and a Walkman to play it on.
Around the time of the 1980's this was when digital recording methods were replaced with digital recording. The benefits of this were that the recorded tracks sounded a lot smoother, and without the small buzz which used to happen with analogue. They were also a lot easier to change if mistakes were made in the recording, which beforehand the artist would have to play everything perfectly how they wanted it to be heard. In essence this style of recording took more talent but also possible more time to get it completely right. As well as these benefits the producers then has a choice of digital effects to put into the songs which made it a lot easier to make new sounds and creativity among new pieces.  
The internet has also played a strong part in advertising for bands. Before the internet the bands would have had to rely on word of mouth, or if people heard them get played on the radio. This was really the only way of getting to know more bands because there was no alternative method of distributing the bands music to the masses.