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Who Needs Radio?
DragonMagic writes "MSNBC asks what many /.ers have been asking: Who needs the radio anymore? Rather, it goes on to really ask, who needs the RIAA anymore? With online music distribution sources, television, and the internet itself, how much longer will it be before the radio, and the RIAA, will be an obsolete means to promote artists?"
The problem is that the 25 mile long ethernet cable running to my car gets tangled too easy.
But the convenience of placing a Windows XP capable computer in your glove box will bring you out of the dark ages caveman.
IMO the RIAA should be turned into a reality tv show on which the executives slowly get voted off until none are left.
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Ditto. I've found that pretty much all the music on the radio sucks and NPR is the only thing worth listening to.
Prairie Home Companion is t3h r0x0rz.
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Why do you assume that only music is played over the radio? I listen to NPR...
Ditto (as it were.) I haven't listened to music in years. (Pay attention, RIAA.)
If I owned a radio station, I'd cast my lot with talk radio. It's unlikely that people will be trading Rush* MP3s any time soon.
*I was going to specify "Limbaugh", but then I realized that it's probably true either way.
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hey, i have Rush mp3s. :P the band, not the guy.
granted, i have most of the Rush CDs as well, and my slashdot username is from a Rush song, so i'm probably not a good sample.
and, hey, i don't trade those mp3s, so you're right after all.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
If by "voted off", you mean "shotgun blast to the groin", then yeah, I'm with you.
As another "What?" point, where do you think most people *hear* the music they download off of the internet?
MTV2.
And personally, I find out about stuff in print (both ink and electric) then look it up on the information superhighway.
The radio sucks so bad that when I listen to it I want to bash stuff with hammers. The 'stuff' I want to bash is usually radios, and sometimes radio dj's.
i don't like my old sig.
NPR rocks Windows XP's face off!
How about dialup users like me?
C|N>K
Hey, I'm a hillbilly, and I resent being compared to deranged microencephalics like O'Reilly and Coulter.