Prince's new collection
Msn.com is streaming Prince's new collection of music-Planet Earth
http://music.msn.com/music/ListeningBooth?GT1=10190.
I say collection of music because I don't know what to call the collection anymore. Album doesn't seem appropriate. When I think of an album, I think of an LP or phonograph record. Although an album could really be any collection of items, album just doesn't sound right for digital items. Anyway, record album already borrowed the term album from photo album because the earliest records were kept in books resembling photo albums. With digital music, there is no physical case or book or even medium for the collection of songs.
CD seems totally wrong since a cd is just the medium, like vinyl records. I wonder if there is a new word for the digital age to express the concept of album? How about Song Book?
posted by Jameson Roane @ 3:06 PM
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