The Benefits of Not Conforming

I read this in the BBC last week, it's an interesting take on peoples' attitudes towards music. Speaking as someone whose music collection is a 2TB hard drive full of MP3s which is permanently on shuffle, I admit I do have sympathy for bands who produce masterpiece albums and then have people effectively picking and choosing the best bits. Despite this, I listen to what I like - yeah, there are some great AOR albums out there, but let's face it, few albums don't have at least one track that makes you wanna hit the track skip button. I could sit on the fence forever.

That said, today I bought Taking Dawn's album "Time To Burn" - as a digital download, as much of my music is these days as it's cheaper, I get it quicker and it saves me having to rip the CD. I had two options - buy the original album release for a fiver or the 'special edition' for eight quid. The special edition had three extra tracks, but get this - you can buy all the tracks seperately for 79p each. So basically I bought the standard edition and then bought the three extra tracks individually and it cost me over a quid less than buying the special edition.

I think I'll be supporting peoples' rights to buy individual tracks for some time yet : )