Downloading music from the internet is set to explode – this time legitimately – as two major retailers (HMV and Virgin) finally embrace the concept and launch the service. Shawn Fanning – founder of the now legendary and latterly legal Napster – must be smiling wrily. More likely he’s still counting the money, but he deserves the credit for the biggest revolution in music retailing since the CD.

This new way of buying music will spawn – as did CD and DVD - a rash of interesting collections. OK, cynically it’s the chance for the record companies to re-package a load of back catalogue cr*p they’ve had in the warehouse for a while and make a few more bucks. However, not all will be garbage…..

In the mid-Seventies, rock music had lost all its spontaneity and excitement, until an angry reaction erupted in London in the Summer of 1976. Punk soon generated some of the most energetic and colourful pop music ever made. These songs are now available on line from – wait for it – Oxfam. Yes, modern fundraising meets the punk shoppers boutique of choice from 1976.

The British punk rock Perfect Playlist is available at half price (10 songs for only £5), register at Oxfam's online music store Big Noise Music (www.bignoisemusic.com/telegraph) I would log on and download them myself, but I have to admit my age and confess I bought nearly all these on 7” vinyl the first time…..

Anarchy In The UK The Sex Pistols Single, December 1976
Hanging Around The Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus, April 1977
Orgasm Addict Buzzcocks Single, November 1977
Ready Steady Go Generation X Single, March 1978
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais The Clash Single, June 1978
Hong Kong Garden Siouxsie And The Banshees Single, August 1978
Public Image Public Image Ltd Single, October 1978
Outdoor Miner Wire Single, January 1979
Damaged Goods Gang Of Four Entertainment!, October 1979
Requiem Killing Joke Single, November 1979

Now, this is by no means ‘my top ten’, but it does include a few that would be in my Punk top ten…any other suggestions?