> I'm starting to get really ticked off about partial albums. An album is a > work of art that an artist worked hard to put together, it's not fair to me > as the consumer or the artist to only offer a "greatest hits" version of the > album instead of the whole thing. Christopher Murphy expressed an understandable concern on this list about the future of music graphics in this age of downloaded music. I have a further concern which I haven't seen mentioned - what about all the textual information (players, producers, recipients of thanks, etc) one usually peruses and assimilates as one listens to one's new purchase? It's long been a key way for me to navigate the oceans of sound out there - how do you know who played or was responsible for the incredible production job on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew or who painted the cover of Jon Hassell's Aka-Darbari-Java if you only download it from the store? Being a UK resident I haven't had a chance to purchase anything - do you get a text file with such details? If not, that's a distinct loss and one not guaranteed to be rectified by research on AllMusic, etc. All the best, Colin