Connect to the Internet and perform a search for listening to country and western music online. As of January 2011, Rhapsody is one site that allow users to listen to 25 songs per month for free and unlimited listening for a subscription fee. (See Resources)
Register at a site for streaming music. A site that features all genres of music can be chosen or one that specializes in just country music.
Choose an album, turn up the speakers or headphones and play your selection.
Connect to the Internet and perform a search for country and western music or go to Amazon or download iTunes and register. (See Resources)
Once registered at a site, search for country albums by artist, album title or by the title of a song contained on the album. Upon finding an album, an option to preview individual songs, buy selected singles or the entire album is offered.
To download an MP3 album, select the "Buy Album" option. The site gives a prompt to enter credit card information and you go through the steps to purchase the album. If you are a first-time user, you might have to download an application from the site for downloading purchased music.
Play the purchased music through the computer's speakers or headphones after the music is downloaded.
Purchase a country and western CD from a store.
Open the disc drive on your computer and insert the disc.
Access the music player on the computer after inserting the CD. The music player on most computers is listed under Windows Media Player and can be found under programs.
Select the album and click "Play" in the media player. Depending on settings, some media players start playing a music CD automatically.