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The ability to pick and choose the tracks to purchase from an albumn is, as you say, a downside to the music download business. However, there are two upsides to it, to whit: one, how many albumns did you never buy because there was only one song worth listening to on the albumn? and two, if a band has a thematic idea for, say, 20 minutes worth of music, it doesnt't have to shovel 30 or 40 or more minutes worth of other stuff into the albumn, it can sell it as a lower cost EP-style download. Lots of good examples of this on Six Degrees' Records download site, for example.And, while I feel sorry for the artist whose concept is eviscerated, I'm glad my son can get the three songs he wants from iTunes and leave what he doesn't behind.I have a wonderful Warren Zevon live, just him and the piano, at home, can't remember the name of the album. He was so good at that too.Last: the least rock the recording industry has washed up on is the Santana & Domingo duet.