Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.