Today’s music scene boasts advantages that many of us fans from yesteryear were never privy to. Though we might like hanging out in record shops from time to time, it’s no longer a necessary rite of passage in order to get our hands on the sounds that defined generations. While the classic sound of needle on vinyl will never go out of style, it’s much more convenient to combine today’s technology with golden oldie hits. After all, it’s not like you can lug the old record player around with you to the office or set it up in the car without endangering yourself and/or others.Welcome to an era of free love in the music industry (assuming you’re willing to sit through an ad or two), much like the free love many of us fought for in our glory days, all you need is a plug-in or wireless internet connection. Take Pandora, for example, a free streaming internet radio service (an upgraded version is available for purchase). If you prefer music from the 60′s, 70′s or 80′s, really any decade with a hits chart, you can create an entire station to play songs catering explicitly to that era. With songs generated in random order, just like regular radio to an extent, not only does this deliver a preferred selection of musical stylings, it also provides many listeners with a few new favorites they may have missed out on back it the day.If you know exactly what you want to hear and the order you want to hear it, give Grooveshark a go. Like Pandora, Grooveshark streams free radio (also with an upgraded for purchase version), but instead allows users to search for specific songs and save them to a music library. From there, simply create a playlist then rewind, skip or repeat songs at will.