Re:Depends on your taste (Score 1)

To me, an album is like a picture, it shows a moment of the band. If I buy one song from an album, it is like I'm taking just a small part of a picture, and by doing so ignoring the rest of the work the band did with a whole album.

But that's just me, today musicians make a lot more money selling one song that made it to a movie or tv show, than selling a solid, continued work that could be an album.
Back to your comment, I think the "buy one song" thing is a rip off, but the musicians know that fact and use it, by doing a 1-hit album, and then selling that one hit for $1, so 19 people that don't care about the band, but liked the song and bought it, gives them more profit then a single fan that buys an album for that same price, that gives most of the money to the distribution-recording companies,

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