While I side with the first opinion, the fact is I really don’t care too passionately one way or the other. If they intended for the songs to be listened to as an album, we as consumers should appreciate their artistic wishes.” The other side says, “Well, Pink Floyd made the music, and only they know how it can be appreciated.

Is There Will Be Blood any less valuable when you’re watching the Blu-ray on your 60-inch plasma instead of at an actual movie theater?” (I’d say no, it’s not any less valuable, especially since I can control the viewing environment when I’m watching the Blu-ray-no having to worry about loud idiots texting back and forth with their mates.) Just because a band ‘says’ its music can only be appreciated in album form doesn’t make it so. One side says, “Yes, consumers should be able to pick and choose whatever song they want without worrying about what any band says. That’s the debate: should consumers be allowed to buy whatever song they want without having to buy an entire album? Again, I wouldn’t know a Pink Floyd song if.

That means, from now on, you’ll only be able to buy The Wall as a full album online, and not merely “In The Flesh?” and “The Thin Ice.” The gist of the ruling-The High Court in the UK, to be exact-is that EMI, the band’s record label, won’t be allowed to sell individual songs from its catalog online.

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