There’s a famous “Peanuts” cartoon panel, long circulated as a meme among music nerds, in which the Schroeder character, bearing armloads of LP, explains to Lucy, “Buying records cheers me up… ...

If music in 2016 has taught anything so far, it's that the world's biggest superstars can drop brand new songs (or indeed, whole albums) with a single tweet. But don't live in fear of not being able ...