I do hate bonus tracks for a very selfish reason. Of all groups and artists I really do like (Watersons, for instance) I still do have all the old LPs and play them on my turntable. Now they reissue the old LPs with one or two or three additional tracks on each CD. And I have to think whether I buy one CD for a single track, whether I steal the artists' money by copying the bonus tracks or whether I have to live with the knowledge that there are some tracks of one of my favourite singers or groups I shall never hear.

I'm in a very small minority and all others would rather have bonus tracks than CDs carrying less tracks than possible for the same price. But I'd love to buy a CD with all Watersons bonus tracks and other material which has not been on the LPs.

Wolfgang