Reply to Buying music-Compilations versus individual tracks

I came across an article yesterday that resonated with me

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ividually.html

I tend to buy lots of compilation albums because I cant justify spending top doller on individual tracks when I can get sometimes up to 50 tracks for about 9 Euro. Admittadly they would not all be stellar tracks but I play techno-minimal-trance and top 40/latest tracks are not that big a deal to me. (BTW I am not a gigging DJ I just play for rmyself and the occasional informal events.)

Beatport is one of the places of choice for people getting music but the typical tracks on beatport range between 1.5 to 2.5 euros. Even if you buy an album the tracks still appear individually priced, and so your not getting any value for purchasing the full release

The era of the individual artist releasing an albums worth of great tracks is more or less gone in electronic music as now its all individual producers, I can barely name ten artists that I might have more than a handfull of tracks from, so we tend to be forced to buy individual tracks so I ask is individual download costing too much!!