tfw you think you don't have any guilty pleasure music but then

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There have been some gems i only discovered because i had the whole album and not just the popular song.

Ah. My guilty songs are usually anime openings/endings. Or some of the trap songs.


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How is it degeneracy? If an artist chooses to let you buy individual tracks why is that a problem?

You shouldn't have the option to only buy a fraction of it, it's a practice in degeneracy.
If an artist wants you to buy a single track, they'll release it as a single.


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And how did you get Singles before iTunes was a thing?

If an artist wants you to buy a single track, they'll release it as a single.


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And how did you get Singles before iTunes was a thing?

If an artist wants you to buy a single track, they'll release it as a single.
You really don't know what a single is?


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It was a trick question. I understand the fact that before iTunes exploded in popularity, you still had to wait for an album in order to get a single on your personal player. Regardless, your answer of an artist releasing it as a single doesn't help your point. I'm not seeing artist after artist losing money in mass over being able to purchase individual tracks. Apple is a middleman, if artists are losing money via people being able to just buy individual tracks they should come up with other alternatives that aren't going to be a hassle for casual individuals such as myself where I don't want to buy a collection and only get my money's worth out of one song.

You really don't know what a single is?


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Yet these artists are CHOOSING to have their tracks be sold individually with iTunes. They're not being forced to have this situation on them. If the artist really cared that much they can just deny letting Apple sell their work.

Really, my 2 cents is that albums should be listened to as a whole piece, at least most of the time. If an artist release a single they want you to just hear that song. I like adhering to their original intentions.


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It was a trick question. I understand the fact that before iTunes exploded in popularity, you still had to wait for an album in order to get a single on your personal player. Regardless, your answer of an artist releasing it as a single doesn't help your point. I'm not seeing artist after artist losing money in mass over being able to purchase individual tracks. Apple is a middleman, if artists are losing money via people being able to just buy individual tracks they should come up with other alternatives that aren't going to be a hassle for casual individuals such as myself where I don't want to buy a collection and only get my money's worth out of one song.

You really don't know what a single is?
Singles almost always come out before the full album.
Artists choose the song they want you to hear and start selling it early to get people excited about the rest of the album.


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The problem though is that while I may really like a song, I'm not going to spend money on several tracks just to listen to one. When Eorzean Frontiers came out on iTunes, I only wanted one track out of it but it was Album Only on iTunes. I just didn't buy the album at all. I didn't pirate it either (didn't think it was worth the hassle), but I really wanted to. They would've made some money if they just let me buy the individual song. And unlike me, there are many people out their with enough resentment to illegally download a track if they're put in a similar situation.

And once again, I can't stress this enough: Artist's willingly give Apple the rights to sell their tracks like this on iTunes.

Singles almost always come out before the full album.
Artists choose the song they want you to hear and start selling it early to get people excited about the rest of the album.
Last Edit: September 21, 2016, 06:53:14 PM by Ian


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And once again, I can't stress this enough: Artist's willingly give Apple the rights to sell their tracks like this on iTunes.
Only because of people like you.
Last Edit: September 21, 2016, 06:57:34 PM by Sᴏʟᴏɴᴏɪᴅ


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It's a response like this that makes people want to pirate illegally. Why pay anything if they can't pay cheaply and they're not going to get what they deem is money's worth out of it while also having a hostile community? Numerically speaking, paying for an entire album for a single track doesn't make sense and that's the point I'm getting across.

Also, I Googled why album sales are down, and the first thing that came up was an article on how both album and track sales are down and how the streaming business is booming. It seems to me like your anger is misdirected.

Only because of people like you.