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Old 09-05-2009, 11:24 AM   #5 (permalink)
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A lot of more modern albums have been, in a sense, "ruined" for me, yeah. Seems as though a lot of bands think that, because a CD can withhold up to eighty minutes of music, they have to record nearly eighty minutes of music, even if half of it is utter shite.
Many don't necessarily feel like they have to, but want to give people their money's worth, don't want to make them feel cheated. In the process they are stretching/thinning out what could be a more solid body of work.
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