Re:What about when the **AA's are out of business? (Score 2, Interesting)

Would you sneak into a movie theater to watch half of a movie just because they wouldn't sell you a ticket to watch half of it at half price? Would you break into a museum to look at one piece because the museum wouldn't give you a discount to only look at one piece?

First of all, let me go on record as saying that these scenarios are ludicrous at best. But seeing as how you brought them up, let us discus how your logic is faulty in simple terms.

Now, for the movie reference, First fault is that you are comparing half a movie with one song, and unless we are talking about the Styx album Kilroy Was Here or any Pink Floyd album where the music is actually telling a story, that analogy is shot to hell. But to humor you, in the sense of video watching, if I think that only half the movie is worth seeing, then none of it is.

Now along the same analogy, only tweaked to make sense, it is like the local six screen theater charging you $46 admittance with the ability to watch all the movies in that one day, and it is the only way to watch the movies. Now, if all the movies are good block busters it might sound like one hell of a deal, but four of the screens are showing Pee-wee's Big Adventure, would you cough up the $46 to watch that one movie you wanted to watch, or would you just wait for it to come out on video, by itself, with none of the fluff or crap. But then the theater feels like it is losing money because people don't want to have to wade through their BS, so they start shutting down the video stores and the only way to see the movies is by paying for five screens of crap that no one wants to see... That scenario, stupid as it might sound, is the business model that the "album" represents.

And now to the whole "breaking into the museum for one piece of art" argument... ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?? *ahem*, sorry 'bout that. But seriously, you're joking, right? You aren't actually comparing the cesspit that is the music industry with a museum? But once again, let us dissect this logically. A museum charges a flat fee for you to make your own experience, or "playlist" if you will. You can go in and look at any pieces anywhere in the museum. If it were more like the music industry, you would have to pay ten bucks to get in to see the cubism exhibit, another fifteen to get in to see the Renaissance paintings, and don't even ask to see the sculptures....