Future of music??

Went to Mount Bonnel - the highest point in Austin (785 feet above downtown). The view of the city was scenic from there. On return, we stopped over at Starbucks for a coffee.

This Starbuks had several kiosks which were music centers. The kiosk had all music that you can imagine (only English though). You can sit there for as long as you want, listening to the music of your choice on those really cool headphones. And if there are songs you really like, compose an album containing only those songs, burn a CD and walk home. No more do we need to buy expensive CDs which have only 1-2 songs that we like to hear. I know we can still do that with MP3s - here, however, you can listen to entire songs before you put them into your album (and I am not talking of music piracy here) - infact listen to them as many times as you want. I think this is value for money - to the last cent!! You pay for each song (here it was a dollar a song)!!

This way, not-so-good songs of an album cannot free ride on the success of those one or two good numbers!