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

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.