I tend to listen to albums I buy straight through, from beginning to end. I dislike if I had to fiddle with a piece of music first when I just want to listen to it.
That does not mean I always listen to every single track. There are albums with a lot of source music, like CHINATOWN, CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, LOLITA... sometimes, I skip those, sometimes, I leave them in. The Prometheus CD had the cue "That's real music" thrown into the main program, I always skipped that track, it just did not belong there and was unconnected to the rest of the score.
But normally, I would want to listen to a composition as is, not skipping any tracks.
That does not mean always listen to entire CDs/albums. Sometimes, CDs, contain several compositions (like two symphonies, two film scores, etc.), so I often only listen to one of them. Bonus Tracks, Alternates etc. are usually cues I turn to separately, so I "skip" those when I just listen to a score.
But yes, by and large, I put on a CD (album, filmscore) and expect it to play through... that's the idea.
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