I am surprised music publishers haven't pushed for exactly what Pink Floyd are arguing for here. When music was sold on tape and CD you could buy a complete album, and/or buy the overpriced singles with maybe one additional track, or several versions of the same track.

Surely that was more profitable than the current focus of selling individual digital tracks? If publishers decided they would only sell digital albums and digital singles, and not split them up, wouldn't that work in their favour?

As a consumer I hope that doesn't happen, I just don't fully understand why EMI would argue against just selling digital albums.