Full Album Experience Ripped Off by ITunes

CD sales are suffering because of online music sales. ITunes is the main distributor of music being sold song by song. Many musicians believe their fans are missing out on the experience of the entire album, according to asrtechnica.com.

Kid Rock is one of the musicians unhappy about the system. He believes distributors and record labels keep a lot of the cash, instead of giving it to the musicians, says arstechnica.com. In many cases, iTunes prohibits artists from selling their album as a complete sale. A big problem ends up being that fans only here a few songs from the artists' albums, and miss out completely on the other things they have done.

Artists must decide which route to take (the iTunes way, or the old fashion way). According to arstechnica.com, AC/DC has had a fair amount of success without using iTunes. The problem remains: It's hard to know if iTunes would have added to the success?

To increase revenue and bring the music business back to its original par, artists many times believe doing away with iTunes and their single song sales will change it around.

Arstechnica made a good point, though: ". . . if consumers want only a single track that they could have for a buck but it's not available, will they purchase the whole album or simply grab the single from P2P networks?"