Napster and the return of the "singles" (Score 1)

I wonder if anybody here remembers when you used to be able to wonder into the local record store and purchase just the one song that you wanted, (well there was the B side, but who's counting). I mean lets face it, many people hear the latest hit on the radio and want to buy it but have to put up with purchasing a complete album at a complete album price on CD. Lets say for example an album costs $21 and contains 10 songs and the cost of the media was $1. That means that in order to get the one song that I wanted I effectively throw away $18 on songs I don't want and $1 on obselete media that can't be reused. It is no wonder that people turn to programs like Napster in order to get what they want when they want also at a very attractive price too :-) Metalica's time and money would be much more worthwhile spent developeing a competetive method of distributing their songs via the Net instead of placeing it in the bottomless pockets of lawyers whose only interest is in ripping their clients off for as much as they can get. ps:Sorry Dad but you ARE a lawyer so you know it's true :-).