>That only makes sense if you consider the different songs on an album as completely unrelated items. Not at all. It also makes sense if you merely want one pa

>That only makes sense if you consider the different songs on an album as completely unrelated items. Not at all. It also makes sense if you merely want one particular song and do not want the others, because they are not the song you want to hear. > it's not extortion or 'force' because you happen not to like most of it. If you look above, I defined the precise way the word 'force' was being used in order to avoid this kind of overly pedantic argument. If you can't roll with the term as it was defined directly above, feel free to disregard it entirely or substitute any word that matches the clarification following it, which is the point :) Finally, remember that singles have been central to the recorded industry from the days of the 45 straight on through the LP era to the present. A good friend of mine is a studio owner that records many major acts everybody has heard of, and the idea that albums are cohesive collections meant to be listened to together is anathema to how the single-driven business works in many cases. In fact, that's been one of the major complaints against the industry for decades :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmFxgEGKH0