Almost all LPs were designed to be played in random order to the extent that the technology allowed. Anybody who's ever looked at LPs notices that there are sm

Almost all LPs were designed to be played in random order to the extent that the technology allowed. Anybody who's ever looked at LPs notices that there are smooth orbits between songs. That's so you can pick up the needle and move it to whatever song you want to. That does not mean that artists don't want you to listen to songs in order, but it also means that you can just listen to the song you want when you want. In the CD era, it meant that you didn't have to listen to 12 tracks of dross to get to the one good song the artist put on the album to sell it.