14 DAY TRIAL // Well, I am quite sure that not once have you downloaded from iTunes a song recommended by friends and truly enjoyed it while really thinking of buying the whole album. Now, you see you're paying more than you should: actually you're throwing away the money you've spent in the first instance on buying the initial song. Isn't it?
Well, you see, after some rather long time of such things, Apple and iTunes have finally changed the situation by launching the Complete My Album option in the online store. Basically, as you download one album from which you have already downloaded one song (and which is supposedly the one who made you download the entire set) you get refunded.
Things are as easy as they are actually very fair, commercially speaking: you buy a song from a 15-tracks album and for it, you'll have to pay $0.99. It's first grade math that1 5 by $0.99 is way more than $10.99 - the cost of the entire album bought in whole and no one is that stupid to pay almost 50% more for music. Well, you see, Apple will refund you as you buy the original album from which a song you have downloaded not further than 180 days ago... $0.99! Basically, instead of buying (and of course - paying) twice for the same song, you do it only once.
Now, since iTunes ain't RIAA so money does get where it's supposed to go, paying (until now) some extra for one song bought for a second time along with the album you liked was not a really nasty thing: what's very cool in the Apple's music sales system is that they're showing a good deal of good will and make things right and correctly. They're showing also that they are first of all in music selling and not into money-piling (as some guys are, you know who...).