{"id":111,"date":"2008-12-16T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-12-17T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T03:29:21","slug":"who-killed-the-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/who-killed-the-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Who killed the album?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Pumpkins <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/smashing-pumpkins-itunes-killed-the-album\/5947\">claims iTunes killed the album<\/a><\/span>. Really? Or maybe people, when given a choice between buying the one or two songs that are good or an entire album of Suck, will opt for the former. <\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, we didn&#8217;t have a choice except to buy an entire album of Suck because that was the only choice. You want Black and Blue by Van Halen? You&#8217;ve got to buy OU812. That&#8217;s not the case today my music loving friend. <\/p>\n<p>Back then, the recording artists could come up with a few decent songs and include them with 7 other songs that I refer to as &#8220;filler songs.&#8221; Today, they can&#8217;t get away with that as much. At least with iTunes users. iTunes is holding their feet to the fire. Put out or get out. For that, I am truly grateful. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">[Posted with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/illuminex.com\/iBlogger\/index.html\">iBlogger<\/a><\/span> from my iPhone]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smashing Pumpkins claims iTunes killed the album. Really? Or maybe people, when given a choice between buying the one or two songs that are good or an entire album of Suck, will opt for the former. Back in the day, we didn&#8217;t have a choice except to buy an entire album of Suck because that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itunes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}