If listening to "entire albums" means both sides 1 and 2 on vinyl or digital media, then I'd have to say that I do, indeed, listen to entire albums most of the time. Sometimes, however, with vinyl, I only listen to one particular side unless there is a or a few tunes on the other that I really like. With CDs I am much more likely to skip tunes that don't particularly thrill me or that I don't particularly care for. With digital streaming I am much more likely to play individual tunes, here & there. Digital media makes it much more convenient to be selective in this respect. Vinyl, of course, requires you to actually get your butt off the couch. The reason I do this goes exactly to the point that rcm1203 makes. I have approximately 500 vinyl albums and around 360 CD discs in my collection. I also have some cassettes (mostly copies of albums I recorded on a high-end machine back in the day) but I don't play those often at all. I gave away my 8-track & reel-to-reel stuff long ago. Of everything in my collection, there are only a couple dozen or so albums that I really, really love in their entirety (i.e. both sides) and maybe another dozen or so that I like well enough to play both sides of sequentially but are not as cherished as my all-time favorites.
Anyone listen to entire albums?
I assume the answer is yes since many of you run vinyl rigs, but just wondering how many around here listen to entire albums at a sitting? In the age of instant gratification and playlists I seem to be, recently, gravitating to listening through entire albums. I don’t have vinyl and only stream or play from a network drive so it’s easy for me to bounce around from song to song, artist to artist. Maybe it’s a nostalgia thing but I enjoy hearing a record in it’s entirely the way the artist recorded it. I’ve flirted with the idea of vinyl for the very reason that it seems to be a format that lends itself to listening through an entire album in one sitting. I seem to be less inclined to make that move though now that I’ve been doing the album thing via streaming.