Most likely, that was just to report to CMJ or somesuch reporting service which helps to keep track of what music is getting played, and not too much more than that.
At the station where I work, I play anything I like, and tell the DJs that work "under" me to do the same, as long as it's not going to get us sued.
Record labels send us stuff for free--they're essentially begging us to play their material, as they know that we're not as easily bought as oh, say, Clear Channel and company.
Yes, some people still do. I run a show out of the local university here, and we've plenty of listeners, because we a) make our own playlists and our own decisions, b) actually consider playing what people want to hear, and c) generally play nothing but good music--no corporate bullshit.
I do agree with your sentiments to some extent that before I discovered indie/nonprofit radio stations such as my own and a few under the Pacifica banner, I hated all radio and preferred the noise of my car engine to anything they were playing over the airwaves.
But once you've started listening to public radio, my friends, you'll never look back.
Okay, I may not be the absolute authority on what should be available, but I do think that having this information available to the authorities is a good thing. Here's my experience:
About a month back, my friends and I came back from class around noon or so to our dorm, and as we walked past our lounge, we noticed that several items were missing: a PS2 including all the connections, a bunch of rare-ish games, some not-so-rare ones, and a couple of Harry Potter DVDs (not mine).
We were kinda suprised, and figured that they'd been stolen. Somehow, one of us got the bright idea of looking on Ebay to see if they were there--I know, silly idea, but get this--they were.
We found all of the items on Ebay, and they had been posted that morning, as they'd been stolen during the night and we hadn't noticed when we left for class around 7 AM.
Anyway, long story short, we proceeded to look up every transaction that they had going, got their shipping addresses, their names (there were two of them--one of whom i kinda distantly knew), and everything else that was available in the Ebay records.
We then walked to the police station on campus, made a report, and a bust occurred within four hours. The kids actually lived in the hall across from us.
Now, had we not been quite as net-savvy, and had I not actually kinda sorta known one of the culprits, I can see how the police would have had to pull up more information--in short, not that eBay should be *too* free with this stuff, but it's definitely necessary to get this stuff handled in an expeditious manner.
Especially considering that they had a Buy it Now on the PS2...
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Most likely, that was just to report to CMJ or somesuch reporting service which helps to keep track of what music is getting played, and not too much more than that.
At the station where I work, I play anything I like, and tell the DJs that work "under" me to do the same, as long as it's not going to get us sued.
Record labels send us stuff for free--they're essentially begging us to play their material, as they know that we're not as easily bought as oh, say, Clear Channel and company.
Yes, some people still do. I run a show out of the local university here, and we've plenty of listeners, because we a) make our own playlists and our own decisions, b) actually consider playing what people want to hear, and c) generally play nothing but good music--no corporate bullshit.
I do agree with your sentiments to some extent that before I discovered indie/nonprofit radio stations such as my own and a few under the Pacifica banner, I hated all radio and preferred the noise of my car engine to anything they were playing over the airwaves.
But once you've started listening to public radio, my friends, you'll never look back.
Okay, I may not be the absolute authority on what should be available, but I do think that having this information available to the authorities is a good thing. Here's my experience:
About a month back, my friends and I came back from class around noon or so to our dorm, and as we walked past our lounge, we noticed that several items were missing: a PS2 including all the connections, a bunch of rare-ish games, some not-so-rare ones, and a couple of Harry Potter DVDs (not mine).
We were kinda suprised, and figured that they'd been stolen. Somehow, one of us got the bright idea of looking on Ebay to see if they were there--I know, silly idea, but get this--they were.
We found all of the items on Ebay, and they had been posted that morning, as they'd been stolen during the night and we hadn't noticed when we left for class around 7 AM.
Anyway, long story short, we proceeded to look up every transaction that they had going, got their shipping addresses, their names (there were two of them--one of whom i kinda distantly knew), and everything else that was available in the Ebay records.
We then walked to the police station on campus, made a report, and a bust occurred within four hours. The kids actually lived in the hall across from us.
Now, had we not been quite as net-savvy, and had I not actually kinda sorta known one of the culprits, I can see how the police would have had to pull up more information--in short, not that eBay should be *too* free with this stuff, but it's definitely necessary to get this stuff handled in an expeditious manner.
Especially considering that they had a Buy it Now on the PS2...