Why not? It's readily available? Why wouldn't it happen now? I have a subsription to Spotify and regularly go back and listen to things a few times if I don't quite get them first time round.
There is tons of brilliant new music out there, easy to find, easy to go back to. This whole lamenting because you can't stand in a shop thumbing through carboard and instead you have the new music at your fingertips is ridiculous.
Yes, record stores were nice, but try a streaming service, give it a proper chance, it's bloody brilliant and I wish they were available back when I was 15.