RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] RIAA Hardball

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Right, so what the station does is choose the "unobjectionable"  
> favorite genre/sound for the FPC of the market in question, and just
> run with that.  Record companies buy into this model of
> boring/predictable music to feed the radio stations.  Interestingly, 
> it also helps them in another way: what act actually performs the 
> vapidity doesn't matter much as long as it sounds a lot like 
> whatever else is out there.  

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of the "popular" non-RIAA music is either religious, anti-religious, smut (foul mouthed rap falls in this category), or classical/public domain. Very little of the music I like is "safe" or "unknown", so it seems I've been successfully brainwashed as well.


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