I Just Want This One Song!!!

[KenK]

Don't get me wrong, I love iTunes and i love my iPod. It's amazing how your perspective of the music you've always listened to can change based on the peripherals. Although the irony I'm finding now is that there are times when I shuffle through the dozens of albums I can access on my iPod, and I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO ANY OF THEM. But for the most part, I love the convenience of having, essentially my entire music collection in the palm of my hand.

In any event, the dilema I now find myself in is that a few of the random songs I've been trying to track down seem very hard to come by, especially if a song is only available on a soundtrack. It would seem in the case of soundtracks on iTunes, you have to buy the whole soundtrack as opposed to buying on a track by track basis. This sucks for me, 'cause most of the soundtracks that feature songs I want, I have no interest in the other songs. I don't wanan buy all of the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack for that one Maroon 5 song. And I'll be damned if I buy the Fast and The Furious 3 Soundtrack for that tight remix of DJ Shadow's 'Six Days', featuring Mos Def. I tried to get it off Napster, but they're not compatible with Macs!! Yeah, paying ten bucks for most albums is a helluva lot better than going to any music store, but if you know you only want one song, it sucks if you have to buy a whole album of crap for that one gem! The song you KNOW you're gonna play over and over and never get tired of!

[cadmium_blimp]

I think mp3's and their players are going to lead to the death of the Album, but I could be wrong.

[Night]

Then there's the albums that you like some of the songs, but the one you want the most has some rights issue. That means you don't want to buy the other tracks because you know you'll have to get the album anyway.

[Spike-X]

I think mp3's and their players are going to lead to the death of the Album, but I could be wrong.

Hopefully they will lead to the death of "one good song" albums.

Some artists (especially in the pop field) are simply more suited to singles than albums.

[Spike-X]

It would seem in the case of soundtracks on iTunes, you have to buy the whole soundtrack as opposed to buying on a track by track basis.

One of the selling points of digital downloading is that you should only have to pay for the songs you want. But no, the record companies can't have people doing that. Corporate greed rears its ugly head again.

[KenK]

One of the selling points of digital downloading is that you should only have to pay for the songs you want. But no, the record companies can't have people doing that. Corporate greed rears its ugly head again.

Oh, you can still do buy by the track for regular albums on iTunes. Shoot, if you find an album where you like every song, and there are over ten to fifteen songs, 10 bucks is a sweet deal. This is great for those hip-hop albums that might have close to twenty or so tracks on it.

[cadmium_blimp]

Hopefully they will lead to the death of "one good song" albums.

Some artists (especially in the pop field) are simply more suited to singles than albums.
And advantage to the internet is that you can release one song at a time if you're one of those people who only does singles for whatever reason, but if everyone only ever buys your music one song at a time with absolutely no obligation to buy the entire album, you have no album at all. Just imagine listening to Led Zeppelin IV, or whatever album has to be listened to all at once, and picking and choosing which songs you want. I think it's bad.

[Motormouse]

You might have better luck if you use something like Limewire.