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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3413297" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>It's not new, but it's a model that has been increasingly dormant since Sgt. Pepper first hit like an a-bomb. Everything HAD to be an album for decades, whether or not the artist had it in them or whether anyone really needed, say, 25 Weird Al tunes at a go. (And yes, I know here at ENWorld, there will people who will say that yes, yes, they do need 25+ Weird Al songs at a time. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />)</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, though, many of the albums that will be popular in two years are EPs or singles today. If you use iTunes, watch their free singles of the week -- it's often six months or more before any of those songs show up in any compiled form, and often they just show up on an EP and THEN eventually that EP forms the core of a later album for folks wedded to the album system.</p><p></p><p>And, frankly, it's OK by me. I'd rather pay 99 cents for a song that I like than $9+ on an album that will have two or three songs, at most, that I like. If I find myself buying more than one or two songs off an album, I preview all the tracks online in iTunes or on the artist's Web site and buy it then, but most of the time, it's just a track or two here, a track or two there, and that's it.</p><p></p><p>Unlike the OP, I don't see this as a bad thing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 3413297, member: 11760"] It's not new, but it's a model that has been increasingly dormant since Sgt. Pepper first hit like an a-bomb. Everything HAD to be an album for decades, whether or not the artist had it in them or whether anyone really needed, say, 25 Weird Al tunes at a go. (And yes, I know here at ENWorld, there will people who will say that yes, yes, they do need 25+ Weird Al songs at a time. :p) Nowadays, though, many of the albums that will be popular in two years are EPs or singles today. If you use iTunes, watch their free singles of the week -- it's often six months or more before any of those songs show up in any compiled form, and often they just show up on an EP and THEN eventually that EP forms the core of a later album for folks wedded to the album system. And, frankly, it's OK by me. I'd rather pay 99 cents for a song that I like than $9+ on an album that will have two or three songs, at most, that I like. If I find myself buying more than one or two songs off an album, I preview all the tracks online in iTunes or on the artist's Web site and buy it then, but most of the time, it's just a track or two here, a track or two there, and that's it. Unlike the OP, I don't see this as a bad thing. ;) [/QUOTE]
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