Rain - the software that looks for spam thought your post was spam.  I don't have any idea what triggered it - you didn't have any links or anything in the post (I can see it).
 
I won't restore it, this time, tho, because it's the same thing you typed in the next reply, so it's redundant now.  in the future if this happens and you want, contact me or Karyn or one of the other hosts and we can restore it.
 
supposedly the Admins are supposed to tell it what it did wrong so that it will learn next time not to delete the same thing.  but that's not happening regularly because the bakers are all very busy.

Rain
 
Who sits quietly in front of the speakers to listen to music with no source of distraction but the album sleeve?
 

He he - I still do that to this day Krist!
 
My hi-fi amp and (ancient) Pioneer speakers are connected up to my PC - all I have to do is hit 'play' and then mosey on over to the sofa
 
Either that, or I listen through my Sennheisers - that way I don't even need to do any moseying   
 
Coincidentally, I did exactly that just yesterday evening to listen to the Blu-ray disc of The Endless River in all of its 96kHz/24bit loveliness 

Thanks Reece!
 
Steve - I too! And even when I'm doing something other, I try to invest time in records, limit my options and focus on an album or two for a while. Though admittedly, I have a tough time with recent records in most cases.
 
Though I sometimes do get sucked into Wikipedia when I get curious about credits.
 
I'm wondering if maybe it's easier for people who are a bit more on the loner side, for who listening to music isn't necessarily a social thing. 

I listen to hours of music every day (if I get the chance) and it's never albums. The only time in my life when I listened to albums was driving the car and listening to Rubber Soul on cassette about a million times in a row.
 
I like to pace around alot doing other things with the music going !@#$ing loud when I'm at home. Sometimes I create a setlist or other times go over to the computer and pick out the next song when the first is playing.
 
When I look at alot of albums I don't accept the idea of an album as a cohesive unit alot of the time. Sure, you've got the rock operas and concept albums but alot of the time, even on those, the songs don't go together. It's marketing hype. Even John Lennon said that Sergent Pepper was not really linked- only about 3 or 4 songs. Same with the back side of Abbey Road- totally disparate styles just wiped into each other. 
 
Somethi;ng like the Goldberg Variations I can accept as a complete piece of art.
 
I like "Singles" culture. Don't buy the songs you'll never listen to.

I've been listening to 10x more music since I figured out how to run Spotify through ARC2 and out through my lovely Equator Audios. It's been an absolute pleasure to hear such fine hi-fi quality again. However, I virtually never listen to full albums anymore.

Once you give people the option to change artists/albums after every track without having to get up and change a disc, they'll do it. People sure as hell used to do it with those multi-disc CD players.

Having said that, I think I would probably listen to an album all the way through if I was baked. But I don't do that any more (well except Christmas and New Year's)....

My sickness/addiction is that I'm too much of a "completionist" which compels me to buy everything from an artist.  Needless to say, that leads to only getting albums and not individual songs.  Alternatively, I rarely listen to an album.  Usually I cue up several albums from the same artist (mostly in chronological sequence) and let them play.  When I'm not doing that, I like to shuffle-play from an entire genre or some specific area of a subgenre.

Vinyls aren't the best option if you're baked... ;)

 
 
I do find that even if an album isn't a concept album, it can be quite coherent, and show a sense of unity. There's no theme to Nirvana's Nevermind, but it's still a pretty tight collection of pop songs.
 
Sometimes there are a few weaker songs, but unless they're real stinkers, I'll listen to the whole thing.
 
As an example, I can't imagine myself putting on one song from Defenders of the Faith or School's Out without wanting to hear the next.
 
I hear War Pigs, I can't not listen to Paranoïd, Planet Caravan, Iron Man, etc...
 
If anything, once I've started, I'll probably go through a whole bunch of albums by the same band or artist. 
 
Obviously, sometimes a couple of songs is enough. But it's actually pretty rare that I listen to a single song on an album.
 
 

I'm not even sure if it is a matter of the younger generation not appreciating music as much. Hard to compare.  i just think technology has changed the dynamics of how we listen to music. I know kids who have spotify and pandora going damn near 24-7. Their phones are used much more for music and surfing web than they are for actual talking.  My son listens to a ridiculous amount of music daily from various eras.  In fact, the internet has made much easier for him to find obscure albums I was never able to get a hold of as a child.  No, he's not running out to buy that rare Coltrane recording he found on youtube, but he's certainly listening.  He comes to me almost daily and will bring up some artist i had forgotten about to ask "have you ever heard this album". Although i miss the feeling of unwrapping that album and reading the credits, I don't miss figuring out how i was going to store my 15,000+ vinyl collection where it would not warp in the summer.

People don't have time to listen because of their smartphones.
 
How long does it take you to drive to work?
Can you listen to an album in that period?
Yes, you can.
 
But you are busy handling calls and texting messages.
 

dubdisciple
... I don't miss figuring out how i was going to store my 15,000+ vinyl collection where it would not warp in the summer.

Ha!  Ohhhh yeah...  Plus the fact that they took an amazing amount of space and were quite heavy too.  Making sure they were sorted just right so you could actually find something was a load of fun as well!