Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Best-Of Albums: A Difficult Decision for Bands

On one hand it remains a giant moneymaker for labels.

On the other, iTunes has made greatest-hits albums redundant. If you want an act’s highlights, you can assemble them yourself.

The Sacramento, Calif., band Cake was requested by its former label, Columbia Records, to make a greatest-hits album. With only a handful of well-known albums to its name, the band judged a best-of disc to be premature. It refused, prompting a legal fight between Cake and Columbia.

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