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I think it comes down to personal preferences. I love listening to entire albums. I don't have favorite songs, I have favorite artists. If I like the artist, I

I think it comes down to personal preferences. I love listening to entire albums. I don't have favorite songs, I have favorite artists. If I like the artist, I listen to an entire album by them. I have never once in my life paid for a single song. If and when I buy music, it's by the album and not by the song.

cyberferret 9y ago
Glad to hear this. I thought I was one of the few people left in the world who bought entire albums and listened to them in entirety. A lot of my most favourite songs are the lesser known or unreleased ones on an album.
microcolonel 9y ago
Yeah, I've been loving Bandcamp quite a lot for this. Finally there's a truly dignified way to buy and sell copies of albums. I'm free to reencode, batch modify the tags, add replaygain tags based on EBU R128/ITU-R BS.1770, copy freely to all my devices, stream it anywhere. It's always sad to me when a band moves off the platform, because generally speaking it means that I will not buy their album at all, except maybe on CD, or if they have a similar website which allows me to get an archive of the whole disc in FLAC.
ionised 9y ago
I'm the same way. For a brief period in my teenage years I would put my entire pirated music collection on shuffle and listen to whatever came on, but at some point I just started listening to entire albums, start to finish. I think it began when I started listening to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson when I was 15. As artists they tended to release concept albums or at least albums that told a story from start to finish, with one track bleeding into the next effectively. Since then listening to whole albums is all I do and when first listening to a new artist i listen to whole albums starting with their first release and working through them chronologically. That gives me the full taste of what they are about as artists and also lets me experience their evolution as musicians over time.

cyberferret 9y ago

Glad to hear this. I thought I was one of the few people left in the world who bought entire albums and listened to them in entirety. A lot of my most favourite songs are the lesser known or unreleased ones on an album.

microcolonel 9y ago

Yeah, I've been loving Bandcamp quite a lot for this. Finally there's a truly dignified way to buy and sell copies of albums. I'm free to reencode, batch modify the tags, add replaygain tags based on EBU R128/ITU-R BS.1770, copy freely to all my devices, stream it anywhere. It's always sad to me when a band moves off the platform, because generally speaking it means that I will not buy their album at all, except maybe on CD, or if they have a similar website which allows me to get an archive of the whole disc in FLAC.

ionised 9y ago

I'm the same way. For a brief period in my teenage years I would put my entire pirated music collection on shuffle and listen to whatever came on, but at some point I just started listening to entire albums, start to finish. I think it began when I started listening to Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson when I was 15. As artists they tended to release concept albums or at least albums that told a story from start to finish, with one track bleeding into the next effectively. Since then listening to whole albums is all I do and when first listening to a new artist i listen to whole albums starting with their first release and working through them chronologically. That gives me the full taste of what they are about as artists and also lets me experience their evolution as musicians over time.