Oups sorry for that is just RIAA talk affecting my sence of logic thinking and there rubbish has turn my brain in to mush.

A member organisation of the RIAA engaged in less than completely legal/ethical/moral activities!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Never! Say it isn’t so!

*Sarcasm Alert Ends*

Honestly, who the heck is surprised by this! Then companies like this have the nerve to wonder why their “sweetness and light” advertising campaigns to convince consumers of how wonderful they are, just don’t work! “Well Duh!” If these corporations hired someone with a brain, and then actually LISTENED to that person, they’d be dangerous.

The newest payolla scheme is paying for advance playlists from radio stations. One would think that a proposed playlist would not be too expensive, after all it is a statement of intent not something written in stone to be unchanged forever. But the cartels are laying out thousands of dollars for one playlist. It is understood but not written that the money isn’t really for the songlist but rather to pay for what their choices are and to modify the preposed list before it is sent out to the stations on what to play. As such it is sort of like a service they are buying, just like in the payolla but instead they are paying in the public eye for a list. (Dang expensive list if you ask me.) It can’t be the ink on the paper that is expensive, nor can it be the paper itself. Even the hours that might have been spent by the station programmer can’t account for the expense.

A few at the time made note that they didn’t feel a lecture from a morally bankrupt cartel was in keeping with the picture being painted in words. Here is but another example of the cartels with their fingers caught in the cookie jar. So $5000 bucks for one night play of a featured artist is the going price for this one station. How about the rest of the stations across this nation? How about the rest of the world? No wonder the cartels are going broke (to hear them claim it). Just how many sales does it take to recoup that expense? Evidently they feel it is worth is as all are playing and paying the same game.

The commercial radio stations are no longer the place to hear new music. With the continuing payolla schemes there is no changes to allow such to come into airplay time. Now I don’t know about the rest that are reading these words but for me, I have all but quit listening to commercial radio. There are simply too many ads and too many replays of the same songs hour after hour, day after day. The heyday of The Eagles, The Who, and others from the 60’s-80’s have pretty much come and gone. There is nothing new out there that tickles the fancy, I long ago bought those I wanted from the range above and don’t need a remix. Cds last a long time, unlike records so no one really needs to repurchase and therefore the continual need to rebuy for some new format is gone.

It appears as if the sue’em all campaign is nothing but a money maker for feeding yet more bs to the public. By the words of past RIAA officals they know they aren’t going to get everyone, they know that the downloading isn’t going to stop no matter what they do. So it has become a second income to the RIAA (which in no way goes to the artist) to support whatever it is the RIAA has in mind next. This sure doesn’t sound like the RIAA should enjoy tax free status as they are definately making money through the lawsuits. Mostly making profits eliminates the tax free status. So why do they still have it? I mean it looks to me like they are spending money left and right to cover the idea that it is a cash cow.

Prehaps something else for Spitzer to look into when this little theme runs dry he is on now.