Originally Posted by BFT3K

Exactly, and the loss of "album" sales to "single" sales hurts as well. You used to buy an album for maybe 2 or 3 great songs, but overtime you would often gain an appreciation of the songs that didn't get airplay too. Sometimes the album conveyed a "feeling" that carried throughout the tracks. Now people are buying one single track at a time. There is no time to decide if you even like any of the other songs the artist has made, because you never allowed them to grow on you. In addition, the sound quality of these compressed files often suck, but since that's the easiest way to consume them, you even lose out on rich full quality sound now as well.