Today's Music

[Bloozcat]

You know it's funny. I was never one of those in the day who was "anti establishment", and I'm certainly not today. But there are some things in the corporate world that are just wrong. And taking the right to choose away from the buying public is just that - wrong. Our system was built on giving people what they want. Giving them alternatives. The proverbial, build a better mousetrap and people will beat a path to you door, kind of open market. The clowns in the commercial music industry are all about control, and that isn't what the public wants. You'd think the music exec's would wake up to this fact as their CD sales spiral downward each year.

A perfect example in the music world of giving people what they want, is Fender. Never in their long and esteemed history has Fender offered as many products, at as many price points as they offer today. It's free enterprise at it's best, and we all benefit from it.

 

[just strum]

Well we can thank Al Gore because if he didn't invent the Internet, we would be lost.

 

[Spudman]

Internet radio recently went through a very scary time.
http://www.thefret.net/showthread.php?t=2817

If it wasn't for the action taken by this organization we might not have quality Internet radio today. So the next time the music industry wants to shut down Internet radio - SPEAK OUT!
http://www.savethestreams.org/

I remember when we got quality and new music on commercial radio too. Those days are gone now. Please support Internet radio.

 

[R_of_G]

Internet radio recently went through a very scary time.
http://www.thefret.net/showthread.php?t=2817

If it wasn't for the action taken by this organization we might not have quality Internet radio today. So the next time the music industry wants to shut down Internet radio - SPEAK OUT!
http://www.savethestreams.org/

I remember when we got quality and new music on commercial radio too. Those days are gone now. Please support Internet radio.

Excellent links Spud. That was a big issue around here in Tampa, FL when it was happening, at least for the listeners of our community radio station WMNF. MNF is one of the only true independent community radio stations in the country, existing solely off of donations from listeners and staffing the station with volunteers. While not all of their music programs are great, they offer sucha wide variety of music programming that no matter what you listen to, there will be a show on at some point that appeals to you. For me, it's interesting to hear new music on the radio as opposed to the "greatest hits" formats of commerical stations where even if you like the bands, it's always the same 2 or 3 songs from those bands. Anyway, WMNF streams all of their shows via the internet, so they were running up against the same issue that Spud raised with the stories he linked to. Because of their fight, I learned a lot about the issue, and Spud is right, it will happen again, and the next time, we ALL need to speak up about it.:AOK: