I've made the point that's explained very well here: the music industry is painfully moving away from the album model and back to the singles model:

As you can see from the chart above [ed: follow the link], legal downloads are expected to continue their growth, but not at a rate that will be able to make up for the decline in CD sales. Although sales of a single track online arguably cost less for the record company due to the lack of physical distribution costs, the fact that music fans are picking their favorite songs from albums instead of buying the whole disc eats away at the advantages of digital distribution from a revenue standpoint.

The labels don't like it, but the business is shifting out from under them. Rather than fight the future with DRM and lawsuits, they should try to adapt.

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