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[vicarz]

The oldies station just went off the air like HFS. They "evolved" from the modernized oldies to sort-of oldies, now to include...well they call it classic, but a) there is already 94.7 classic rock, and b) they are talking Billy Joel, Elton John, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac...you know what else that is called? Light fucking rock. Ew. They also fired virtually all the DJs with no announcement in advance. That is so shitty on a human level that I have wiped their station off my personal map.

I still think XM sucks just like cable. Perhaps it is, like cable, worth paying for alternative programming to get away from the marketing suck. Radio and the music industry got so fat off their investment, taking out every possible penny with every trick from paying off program managers to creating "stars" rather than finding them...that people moved to other sources for music. It makes me follow my libertarian leaning school - perhaps monopolies aren't bad when the product is mobile (vs. telephone wires or gas lines). Each time the company gets too much profit, market entry follows. I mean it took a lot of suck to inspire some assholes to fire a rocket satellite into the sky to give us Sirus/XM. Now, is $15 monthly worth saving the time it would take to play your own CD/mp3/podcasts?

The world is going to hell in more ways than I can count but I take the time to inform my friends about the loss of a local oldies radio station.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's all gone to hell anyhow. I pulled up my stakes and moved to the iPod/iTrip combo long ago.

JRJA

[kattrags.livejournal.com]

The semi-good news, in my book, anyway, is that 94.7 got all of HFS's records and expanded their playlist to include a lot more stuff that I actually like.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I was driving home the other night and Weasel was playing "Monster" from Frank Schnieder and the Shake Society (B'52s out-take). They make me happy. For now.

[shesquint.livejournal.com]

Heh - perhaps Weasel's trying to recapture his glory days? Note that that wasn't meant to be snarky. Hearing his voice still gives me a little twinge of nostalgia for the days when he was on HFS.

By "the oldies station", do you mean 100.3? If you do, I'm-a be very upset. That's three, count 'em three, of the preset stations in my car gone.