Blog: Court rules you must listen to the rubbish songs as well

Blog: Millions of music lovers were left reeling today after a High Court judge ruled they could no longer download "just the good songs" from online music retailers and must in future download the entire album - even if there's only a few good songs on it.

The decision came after Pink Floyd succesfully stopped their record label selling single downloads from their concept albums because it breached their artistic integrity.

In the case of Pink Floyd album The Wall, fans will no longer be able to download only the good ones, such as Goodbye Blue Sky and Another Brick in the Wall, but will be forced to listen to all the really depressing stuff as well. Even that one about the worms.

A spokesman for the music industry said several bands now planned to challenge the 'skip track' function on CD players.

"It's simply not fair that people can buy, say, a copy of The Beatles' Revolver album or Sergeant Pepper and completely ignore 'the George one'," the spokesman added.