Deutsche Grammophon, a German classical music company founded in 1898 by Emile Berliner , will be launching on Wednesday an online store for MP3s called DG Web Shop It is probably the most well respected company in the classical music field for music distribution of High Fidelity classical audio products. The company was originally known as the Berliner Gramophon prior to the onset of the WWI when the name was changed to what translated means the German Grammophon which is the device that was a traditional way of listening to LP’s/Vinyl long time ago. For those of you don’t remember what that was, here’s a picture from Wikipedia.

For the longest time this was the only way to get decent quality classical music before the arrival of the CD player but still today it was largely impossible to get the best classical work originally online, it always had to be bought via CD and then ripped to go into your MP3 player but apparently no more.

Source: Techcrunch

Finally a champion of classical music joins the 21st Century, I can’t wait to augment my collection with this, DG has one of the best classical music libraries in classical music history. Remastered classics will be available online, can’t wait!