Album or Single-Song

[Outofin]

Do you prefer album or single song more than the other?

[skylee]

What do you mean? Which album? Which single? What other?

[Outofin]

Sorry I didn't make it clear. I mean, before the internet era and after classic era, we were used to buy albums, right? Now more and more people start using online services and downloads. Do you make your own collection CDs, put random songs in your music player, or you persist on listening a whole album. Put it simple, do you purchase single songs or buy albums? Is a whole album too long to fit your life? Does the form of album offer a unique experience that single songs couldn't offer? Kind of these questions. I'm curious how the habits people listen music change.

[Lu]

Depends. For good bands/singers, I buy the album, because that might contain more good songs.

For one-hit-wonders, or songs that I like in a genre that I usually don't like, I just buy the song (but in China, I still buy the album, because it's dirt-cheap anyway and singles are nowhere to be found).

[gougou]

Album, but not for the whole experience, but to get to those songs with less/no air time on the radio.