> I'm not going to bother attempting to make sense of your contradictory
> philosophical ramblings, although a lot of it seems to boil down to I
> Demand Excellent Quality For Free Without Consideration For Basic
> Economics Oh And You Don't Play Enough Of My Brilliant Stuff.  If your
> music and your marketing savvy are really that superior, by all means
> apply them to your own circumstance so I can, um, have heard of you.

> I will point out that it's a little more complex than you seem to
> think to walk into CBS or Clear Channel and get a radio show.

> And buying a song on iTunes is not the same as paying broadcast
> royalties on two dozen songs every week.

> And you have a very interesting notion of how recording a radio show
> works.  You might try it yourself.  It's called a "podcast".  They're
> not searchable, either.  You want to play individual songs?  Buy
> individual songs.  Although I suspect you don't want to do that.
> Might cost you something.

> And we at The FuMP are following a very different economic model.
> (Heck, I'm following a different model from The FuMP.  Close, but not
> quite the same.)

> And if you don't like the product, then you can simply go away and not
> buy any more of it.  Nobody's saying, "Pay two bucks for that audio
> stream or we'll kill this kitten."

> And we haven't even got into your demands regarding audio quality,
> which are directly related to server space, speed, compromising for
> people still on dial-up, etc., etc., etc.

> Dr. D is trying to continue his business in a changing world.  As you
> say, there's this internet thing.  But he still has to, and wants to,
> conform to laws, rules, regulations, and the need to pay his own
> bills.  If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.  He'll find that out in
> due time.  But I sincerely doubt your "advice" will help anybody
> besides... you.

> (I'm sure, by the way, that Luke and Devo and Richard Cheese are
> tremendously flattered that you consider them in the same league,
> advertising-wise, as Weird Al, who did have his own TV show and is on
> a national tour and at least has a chance of some airplay on regular
> radio.)

> Long story short: You come off like Veruca Salt.  The pony isn't
> precisely the color you wanted, and you've got to feed it and take
> care of it, and if you don't like it the pony won't much care if you
> abandon it.  It'll manage by itself.

> Even shorter: Grow the hell up.