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February 4, 2010

Bob Lefsetz had a great post yesterday about albums vs singles. About how the old world of selling albums has given way to a new digital age of singles and ‘a la carte’ music consumption. In the old paradigm, artists sold a collection of songs because they could. Records, tapes and CDs all held X amount of music, and they had to give someone a certain amount of listening enjoyment for us to pay $10-$20 for the one song we really wanted. We didn’t mind spending $15 for the rest. To experiment. To find the one or two other tracks that moved us. The ones that weren’t supposed to be good.

But we didn’t have the choice we have today.

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