Originally Posted By peeaanuut I have a question for ya. So when you download music from whatever service you use, do you tend to download a single song or a few from a CD or do you download the entire CD? I have always been one to get the entire album because I feel like I am missing something others. How about you?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA For me, it depends peeaannuut. Back in the day, we used to buy single 45s -- simply because we wanted to hear just that one song. Many times, if I bought an album [I'm thinking of the band 'Chicago'], they had one hit on side 2 -- and the rest was somewhat painful to listen to. Anyway, I tend to cherry pick the songs I want to buy. And I also subscribe to RealRhapsody -- which costs about $10 a month, and you can listen to complete songs. So I listen to songs there, and if I really like them, I'll buy them from iTunes. Occasionally, I'll buy a complete album -- Earth Wind & Fire 'Illuminations' this past month -- but it's fun to just listen to an album too, without having to make the commitment to own it for life.
Originally Posted By piperlynne I'm the most random downloader in the world. I will sometimes download everything I can find from an artist, or just do a random search on genre and download. My collection is very ecclectic. I've only actually downloaded an entire cd for a soundtrack though.
Originally Posted By Big Thunder It depends for me too. If it is an artist or band I really like I usually get the whole album. Sometimes it is song I heard on the radio and I say "oh cool I want that song" but I don't know the artist well enough yet so I'll sample a song or two to decide if I want the whole thing, sometimes from that process I'll get the whole album or decide "naw I just want that song I like"
Originally Posted By pacomama I only ever buy single songs. Chances are, if there are two songs I like, then I'll probably like the whole album and then it's worth it to me to actually buy the CD so I can get the liner notes and stuff.
