deadgoon42's Journal: Artists only fooling themselves

I've been thinking recently about how music artists and companies are complaining that if they sell music on a per song basis (like in Apple's iTunes Music Store), it will ruin their industry and destroy the artistic value of an album. But hasn't the CD already made listening to one track off an album and skipping the rest incredibly easy? I know tons of people that have bought an album for one or two songs and just skip all the rest. I've done this myself many times. I've also bought albums for one song and ended up liking the whole album. I think selling music by the track raises the bar for artists and producers. If they want the album to survive, they will have to create great albums and not just hope that people will buy it off the strength of one song... because they won't.