Slashdot Mirror
Domain: wknc.org
Stories and comments across the archive that link to wknc.org.
Comments · 8
-
Yeah! Let's drive RIAA affiliates out of business!
How about we stop buying their shit?
Done. I haven't knowingly purchased RIAA affiliated music in years. Yet I still buy and download quite a lot of non-RIAA music. I don't even listen to those radio stations anymore. You know the ones... they play the same 50 RIAA songs all week long. I listen to my local college station. Not every song they play is a hit, but you're guaranteed to hear different music every day. Don't have a decent college station? You can even listen online! Here's my local station. They're awesome. They even stream in ogg. Their playlist is online too, so when you hear a song you like, it's easy to check for RIAA-ness. If the RIAA bastards have anything to do with the music, just don't buy it. According to iTunes, I've purchased 12 songs this month. Not one thin dime went to RIAA affiliates.
PS. Fuck You U2. After reading your press release of late, I will never buy your shit. EVER. Nothing you can say or do will change that. You've joined the ranks of Metallica. Go straight to hell. I hope you get hit by a bus the next time you cross the street. You have the gall to ask "Who's got our money and what can we do?" Allow me to answer that here, since I'm required to join you website to send you feedback: "Who's got our money" The customer has the money. It isn't yours unless earn it. "What can we do?" You can drop dead. I'll never buy your music. I'll never support you in any way. I will will actively discourage anyone I know who might. Big mistake assholes. One happy customer might tell one person. One angry customer will tell everyone he knows.
-
Yeah! Let's drive RIAA affiliates out of business!
How about we stop buying their shit?
Done. I haven't knowingly purchased RIAA affiliated music in years. Yet I still buy and download quite a lot of non-RIAA music. I don't even listen to those radio stations anymore. You know the ones... they play the same 50 RIAA songs all week long. I listen to my local college station. Not every song they play is a hit, but you're guaranteed to hear different music every day. Don't have a decent college station? You can even listen online! Here's my local station. They're awesome. They even stream in ogg. Their playlist is online too, so when you hear a song you like, it's easy to check for RIAA-ness. If the RIAA bastards have anything to do with the music, just don't buy it. According to iTunes, I've purchased 12 songs this month. Not one thin dime went to RIAA affiliates.
PS. Fuck You U2. After reading your press release of late, I will never buy your shit. EVER. Nothing you can say or do will change that. You've joined the ranks of Metallica. Go straight to hell. I hope you get hit by a bus the next time you cross the street. You have the gall to ask "Who's got our money and what can we do?" Allow me to answer that here, since I'm required to join you website to send you feedback: "Who's got our money" The customer has the money. It isn't yours unless earn it. "What can we do?" You can drop dead. I'll never buy your music. I'll never support you in any way. I will will actively discourage anyone I know who might. Big mistake assholes. One happy customer might tell one person. One angry customer will tell everyone he knows.
-
WKNC
Speaking of college radio... NCSU's radio station, WKNC is pretty awesome. Lots of variety, playlists are listed online. They also broadcast on the internet as well. Once you hear it, you can make sure the tune is RIAA free at the RIAA Radar. Another good source is CD Baby. Pretty much everything there is RIAA free. I used to use iRate quite a bit, but last I checked it was no longer being updated regularly and suffering from severe bitrot. I also use iTunes music store recommendations. A lot of those can be RIAA free, you just have to check them with the RIAA Radar before you buy.
-
WKNC
Speaking of college radio... NCSU's radio station, WKNC is pretty awesome. Lots of variety, playlists are listed online. They also broadcast on the internet as well. Once you hear it, you can make sure the tune is RIAA free at the RIAA Radar. Another good source is CD Baby. Pretty much everything there is RIAA free. I used to use iRate quite a bit, but last I checked it was no longer being updated regularly and suffering from severe bitrot. I also use iTunes music store recommendations. A lot of those can be RIAA free, you just have to check them with the RIAA Radar before you buy.
-
WKNC
Speaking of college radio... NCSU's radio station, WKNC is pretty awesome. Lots of variety, playlists are listed online. They also broadcast on the internet as well. Once you hear it, you can make sure the tune is RIAA free at the RIAA Radar. Another good source is CD Baby. Pretty much everything there is RIAA free. I used to use iRate quite a bit, but last I checked it was no longer being updated regularly and suffering from severe bitrot. I also use iTunes music store recommendations. A lot of those can be RIAA free, you just have to check them with the RIAA Radar before you buy.
-
Thumbs down on radio above 92.5MHz
Stay below 92.5MHz on your FM dial and you're usually a lot better off.
You'll often find NPR stations and college radio, often almost completely void of annoying DJs and commercial interruptions.
In the triangle we've got:
88.1 -- WKNC @ NC State Listen in high-quality
88.9 -- WSHA @ Shaw University Listen in
89.3 -- WXYC @ Duke Listen in
89.7 -- TheClassicalStation, WCPE Listen in
91.5 -- WUNC in Chapel Hill Listen in
I know everybody doen't have such a wonderful selection at the bottom of the dial as the Triangle, but check it out locally - you may discover something... (tune manually rather than with "seek" or "scan" as these will often miss low powered - sometimes high quality - listening opportunities). If you don't have a FM tuner onboard your music player, you can either pipe in audio from a regular radio to your soundcard for automatic recordings and conversion to your favorite format or use the FM tuner that's built in to many TV capture cards and do the same.
http://gary.burd.info/2003/07/time-shifting-fm-rad io.html
http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/radio/
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/15 40231&tid=141&tid=185&tid=95&tid=4 -
Thumbs down on radio above 92.5MHz
Stay below 92.5MHz on your FM dial and you're usually a lot better off.
You'll often find NPR stations and college radio, often almost completely void of annoying DJs and commercial interruptions.
In the triangle we've got:
88.1 -- WKNC @ NC State Listen in high-quality
88.9 -- WSHA @ Shaw University Listen in
89.3 -- WXYC @ Duke Listen in
89.7 -- TheClassicalStation, WCPE Listen in
91.5 -- WUNC in Chapel Hill Listen in
I know everybody doen't have such a wonderful selection at the bottom of the dial as the Triangle, but check it out locally - you may discover something... (tune manually rather than with "seek" or "scan" as these will often miss low powered - sometimes high quality - listening opportunities). If you don't have a FM tuner onboard your music player, you can either pipe in audio from a regular radio to your soundcard for automatic recordings and conversion to your favorite format or use the FM tuner that's built in to many TV capture cards and do the same.
http://gary.burd.info/2003/07/time-shifting-fm-rad io.html
http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/radio/
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/15 40231&tid=141&tid=185&tid=95&tid=4 -
Thumbs down on radio above 92.5MHz
Stay below 92.5MHz on your FM dial and you're usually a lot better off.
You'll often find NPR stations and college radio, often almost completely void of annoying DJs and commercial interruptions.
In the triangle we've got:
88.1 -- WKNC @ NC State Listen in high-quality
88.9 -- WSHA @ Shaw University Listen in
89.3 -- WXYC @ Duke Listen in
89.7 -- TheClassicalStation, WCPE Listen in
91.5 -- WUNC in Chapel Hill Listen in
I know everybody doen't have such a wonderful selection at the bottom of the dial as the Triangle, but check it out locally - you may discover something... (tune manually rather than with "seek" or "scan" as these will often miss low powered - sometimes high quality - listening opportunities). If you don't have a FM tuner onboard your music player, you can either pipe in audio from a regular radio to your soundcard for automatic recordings and conversion to your favorite format or use the FM tuner that's built in to many TV capture cards and do the same.
http://gary.burd.info/2003/07/time-shifting-fm-rad io.html
http://osl.iu.edu/~tveldhui/radio/
http://jaeger.blogmatrix.com/radio/
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/05/15 40231&tid=141&tid=185&tid=95&tid=4