It seems that some bands don't want to sell individual songs at Apple's Music Store.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock bands The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica are refusing to make their music available as individual downloads on Apple Computer Inc's (AAPL.O) iTunes online music store, a representative for the bands, said on Wednesday.

That move comes in response to Apple's decision to allow users to buy single tracks and is intended to protect the future of the long-playing album, the format that has dominated the music industry for decades, an agent for the bands said. [Reuters] [via MacNN]

What's most surprising is that Apple won't sell on albums with no tracks being available on it. I think some for some bands it makes sense for them to do this. Though I think it might make sense for them to just release one song of the album, just to give people a taste. It's pretty interesting seeing how all this is playing out. I know how much Apple wants to sell things by the song, but if they don't bend on this they're doing their customers a disservice. I'm sure there are lots of folks who would be glad to buy a whole album by some of these bands. Though it might be an interesting compromise to sell some individual tracks on older albums, and maybe only sell new albums by the album.