response 7 of 23:

Dec 13 09:14 UTC 2002

  You know I hear the "I don't want to pay for a whole album with only two
  good tracks" complaint often enough but I can't figure out whether the
  people complaining are just buying music that's very different from what
  I listen to or whether it's my personal tastes in music but I encounter
  the problem pretty rarely -- probably on fewer than one disc in eight
  among those discs I buy on impulse (and fewer still on discs which aren't
  impulse buys.)   Is the quality-to-filler ratio that much higher in 
  whatever popular musical marketing niche people are favoring these days
  or is there something else which explains why other people find this to
  be a widespread problem when I find it to be an occasional disappointment?