Show me the tracks

Dear record labels,

Now that we live in the iPod generation, with everyone keeping their CD collection digitally on their MP3 player of choice, the days of hidden tracks at the end of CD's needs to stop! I have loaded my entire music library on my Philips 30GB MP3 player and recently have found 3 songs with terrible hidden tracks stuck on the ends of otherwise good songs. Sure I could just deal with it and skip to the next track, but I'm a perfectionist and it just bugs me. So instead I take the extra effort and crop the bad stuff out of the songs. Then there are those hidden tracks that I actually like, and those also need to be cropped out so I can listen to them easier. Please stop doing this and simply put the music on the disc as an actual track number. The first time I learned about the presence of a hidden track it was cool, but that was in the early 90's and now it's simply annoying!

The following are examples of good songs with complete junk hidden at end:

• Nirvana's "something in the way" from Nevermind

• Pearl Jam's "parting ways" from Binaural

• Bush's "distant voices" from Razorblade Suitcase

The following are examples of good songs with even better hidden tracks:

• Hootie's "go and tell him (soup song)" with hidden song "alright" from self titled album

• Gear Daddies' "one voice" with hidden song "zamboni" from Billy's Live Bait