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 More options Oct 16 2007, 4:10 am
Newsgroups: rec.music.dementia
From: filkertom <filker...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:10:32 -0000
Local: Tues, Oct 16 2007 4:10 am
Subject: Re: Dear Dr. Demento...
Now, y'see, I think WQ and Devo are being far too nice.

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.


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