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The entertainment industry gets worse and worse each day. Everything they do to "stop" piracy ends up encouraging it even more. Hell, most concerts I've been to, taking pictures or recording video is prohibited.

Pretty soon, they're going to start charging you to listen to a song on the radio.
 
I listen to a lot of music, but mostly on the computer. I hardly ever listen to music on the radio. When I do listen to the radio, it's almost always to sports talk. Most of what I hear on the radio is just not what I like.
 
Benevolent One said:
I listen to a lot of music, but mostly on the computer. I hardly ever listen to music on the radio. When I do listen to the radio, it's almost always to sports talk. Most of what I hear on the radio is just not what I like.
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Actually, around here, most of the radio stations are pretty good.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I don't hear bad music. I listen to 96.3 all day, rock station in Roanoke - mostly classic rock with some (very little) modern rock thrown in.
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I used to listen to WROV quite a bit when I lived there too. Still turn it on when I go visit my family, most of whom still live in Roanoke. They do stick with the classic stuff for the most part. You can turn it on today and hear pretty much the same music you would have heard on there in 1995.
 
A lot of stations seem to play the same songs over and over. They have thousands to pick from but only seem to play about 20.
 
ToyYoda said:
I used to listen to WROV quite a bit when I lived there too. Still turn it on when I go visit my family, most of whom still live in Roanoke. They do stick with the classic stuff for the most part. You can turn it on today and hear pretty much the same music you would have heard on there in 1995.
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They have WROV on iHeartRadio. The "modern" music is very rare on there. I like it. There are thousands of classic rock songs to choose from that are plenty good. IMO, modern rock tries too hard to be metal and it all sounds the same.
 
ToyYoda said:
I used to listen to WROV quite a bit when I lived there too. Still turn it on when I go visit my family, most of whom still live in Roanoke. They do stick with the classic stuff for the most part. You can turn it on today and hear pretty much the same music you would have heard on there in 1995.
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This is what I listen to WROV on.

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Talk radio killed AM and is now encroaching on FM stations.
As Stewartfan said the stations that do play music, especially the 'classic rock" stations play the same stuff over and over.
Many times I drive with the radio off.
 
Bobw said:
Talk radio killed AM and is now encroaching on FM stations.
As Stewartfan said the stations that do play music, especially the 'classic rock" stations play the same stuff over and over.
Many times I drive with the radio off.
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This irritated me when I lived near Baltimore. Every single thing on the radio was a talk show in the mornings - whether it was Conservative talk radio or shock jocks talking about sex and drugs. The car only had an FM radio. It drove me insane.
 
Clear Channel is the devil. Killed off a lot of the local radio stations that played a larger variety of music.
 
Recorded my albums (mostly scratch free) to mp3 and ripped my CDs. I use Random Playlist Creator to make playlists and listen to an mp3 player at work. My tunes include ABBA to Zeppelin, country to big band. I started my mp3 collection when I got tired of hearing the same songs multiple times a day. There is enough good music that a station shouldn't need to repeat a song more than once a month.
 
That's what I like about Pandora radio. I can pick an artist, or a song, and hear all kinds of stuff I've never heard before. Right now, Carolina Chocolate Drops is the channel, and there's a plethora of new Americana and old bluegrass, and everything in between. Don't have to hear the commercialized stuff on mainstream radio, and there's some rally, really good music out there, it's just not on terrestrial radio stations. Between having 12,000 songs on my iPod and this, I haven't listened to regular radio in quite some time
 
Smittydoot said:
Clear Channel is the devil. Killed off a lot of the local radio stations that played a larger variety of music.
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I remember when they bought one of the local stations in the late 90s... As a small protest by the DJs and producers of that station, they looped It's the End of the World as We Know it by REM for its last day until they officially closed shop. No commercials or anything, just a constant loop.
 
We've got nothing but trash on FM here. When I'm in the city truck at work, I listen to an all news station and a couple of talk radio channels.
 
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