Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Better than having to buy 4 complete albums just to get the 5 popular songs you actually wanted to listen to.

  Solution to a problem from “back in the olden times”

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only if you already have all the songs.

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• Beacon@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No they're not, or at least not any more than any other album. If you buy an album, you're buying the music on that album

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• ApeNo1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Buy my mixtape

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That would rather be the equivalent to “Bravo Hits 18” (or whatever they were called in other countries)

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    • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair, I discovered a lot of my favorite artists through compilations like Bravo Hits and later Crossing All Over and Punk-O-Rama… and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 of course.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean where they used cheap studio bands to recreate big hits? Happened to me once, in the 80s. What a letdown. But iirc Bravo Hits always used the original music.

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• Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  True, but then again, every album is a playlist.

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• mistermodal@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The default way something operates and how much attention is required to change that is actually very important for the user experience. Not to mention the sound engineering that often goes into it

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A lot of “best of” albums I have are remasterings, so it at least is an upgraded version that sounds cleaner.

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is an insult to fans. As a fan , i fo not even want to decide for me which songs are the best

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it really an insult? I don’t really care that there are compilation albums of bands or artists I like if it means more people might listen to them. Just because they call it best of doesn’t mean it has to align with my ranking.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the era of streaming there is no excuses for them it is easy to create your own playlist with the best songs

      Just because they call it best of doesn’t mean it has to align with my ranking

      I didn’t say otherwise.

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