Further Musical Annoyances

To add a post script to my previous entry about annoying things, I have another tale to tell. Today I decided it was time to download the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs song Sealings which appears on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack. It's been played on the radio a few times and it's pretty good. I looked on the iTunes music store to do the honourable and honest (and legal) thing and it was there, all right. As an 'album only' track. This means you need to download the entire album in order to acquire this song.

I'm sorry but I don't see why I have to do that. Often on iTunes the album only tracks are those short intro/outro things or else some crappy really long bonus track tacked onto the end of a short album to bring it up to a reasonable length (check out The Beginning Stages Of by the Polyphonic Spree for an example). But most of the album in this case consists of 'album only' tracks. There are a total of four singles you can download for the standard price of $1.69 each or you can pay $17 for the whole album.

So sorry, Spiderman 3 soundtrack and iTunes. You just lost my money. I'll do the dishonourable thing instead and find a version of the song I can have without paying for an entire album I don't want. Next time you try to trick customers out of their cash I hope you realise what you're doing. I'm all for the next generation in musical consumerism of buying songs track by track. But I don't see why it has to be made more difficult by greedy record labels out to score a profit.