Comments on: New RIAA radio tax

By: Whatthe?

Whatthe? — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:54:33 +0000

The more I hear about this performance tax the more I am perplexed. Without the radio to promote the performers there would be no performance. Haven’t any of you seen the bio’s of many recording stars, how they hawked radio stations to get play time? Or, talked to dishonored stars who angered the public and were brought down for lack of air time. The radio (the media) can make or break you – just look at American Idol. I think the recording industry should pay the radio stations to promote their clients. For greed’s sake don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Wanna bet that all the money collected will be retained a few labels and that no one can figure out how the money is distributed and why?

Just see what happens with radio/tv/bar/mall/hall… royalties? No one can figure out the system and the many forms of slicing the money so that only a few music publishers wind up with and keep almost all the money.

After all, the foxes are guarding the chicken coop. RIAA is just another fox.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:19:10 +0000

People pay for radio? Well I guess they do it for the TV so why not.
But they must spend alot of time in their cars? (heck i turn my radio off most days)

By: Ehud

Ehud — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:02:21 +0000

I want to know what the fuck they do with all this money coming in. It really doesn’t seem like the artists are getting paid as much as they claim…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:40:47 +0000

Just don’t buy the service. If people continue to pay for this stuff after raise and raise of the prices and such a decline in quality, then frankly they deserve the crap for the high price. You cannot help those who don’t want to be helped

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:52:49 +0000

Their getting so desperate and out of control. It doesn’t matter what they do anymore. I don’t want a goddamn thing they have to offer. The best music is not in their hands anyway, and I’d like to hope that radio comes to their senses and starts playing more indie and unsigned stuff and tells them where to go with their manufactured, regurgitated crap. The future for music will be bright once these assholes are dead and buried.

By: RadialSkid

RadialSkid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:16:42 +0000

Damn….I was going to get Sirius at one point, too.

Well, not any more.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:57:47 +0000

how else do you think the RIAA comes up with cash to payoff politicians to do their bidding?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:41:14 +0000

Go figure. Parasites can’t get the consumers to cough up enough cash for their shitty music, so they milk as much money as they need to survive out of other venues.