Stop calling MP3s on the internet "albums".
 

We need to come up with a new term for internet based song collections other than "album". Albums should only be a physical object made from vinyl.

IMO.

Too convenient for anyone to download a bunch of samples, some cheap recording software, and then cobble together a bunch of stuff into a dozen songs on a site like bandcamp and then announce "I just released my new album".

Great for the ego, not so great for the legacy of real albums.

IMO.

YMMV.

We shouldn't even call vinyl records albums. Too easy for any schmuck with a guitar to sit in front a studio's microphone and tell a "story" (usually without plot, just a description of a sad guy's day). We must preserve our concept of nobility and create a caste system for everything in our lives or we will crumble.

Most definitely.

You didn't disappoint.

Wonder why we never called CDs "albums". We just called them CDs. Same with cassettes.

Sheesh, the royal "we" from the guy who calls me pretentious.

Would you extend your concept to books published exclusively on the internet or does physicality only matter for this instance?

Call FLAC whatever you want though.

There's only one place left for us old fogeys to go, Chula....
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The only time I have ever heard someone use the medium in which the music is stored on interchangeably with what is actually valued, you know, the music, is with vinyl. I don't ever recall someone in the '90's saying "hey man, have you heard the new Back Street Boys CD", it was always "Have you heard the new Back Street Boys album?"