Brad

maybe artists should concentrate on putting out solid albums and playing good live shows. I can list a few shows that I have seen in the past few months that were well below par.

I am getting a little sick of this RIAA crap. They are only hurting the artists and making it harder for the little record companies to compete with the big guys. They need to look into why more and more people are turning to internet radio as a source of new music. I would venture to guess that it is because there is more variety in the playlists, less comercials, and in genreal they play more listenable music.

I stopped listneing to the radio probably about 10 years ago and have recently been using myspace to find new music. I have a crap load of music on my computer and on CDs and records. I can't stand listening to the same Nickleback song or whoever the flavor of the week is. Even the stations that play "classic" rock seem to play the same fucking songs from the same artists day in and day out. For example, the station that I am thinking of plays "Hey Hey, My My" whenever they play Neil Young and does the same with all of the other bands they play. What's the poing in subjecting myself to that crap when I could easilly open iTunes or put on a cd or record that will play better music?

The radio is dead to me and I assume that it will be dead to the world soon if the record companies don't stop pushing their adgenda on the program directors. Although I guess there will always be people who could care less if they hear Nickleback and U2 twice an hour with 20 minutes of commercials.

Fuck the RIAA, they couldn't tell their assholes from their heads if the lights were turned off.

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