Look here all you social commentators and lamenters of Western Decline:

There was never a point in time, in the short period of its existence, when you could simply turn on the radio and hear BITH3N TUNEZ 24/7, BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

The dung-music sprayed from the lagoons of radio HAS ALWAYS SUCKED. Maybe with an exception here and there.

Don't analyze it and argue about it...like Bill Hicks' review of Basic Instinct, just say "what a piece of shit" and move on! If your livelihood is not dependent on that particular economic game, than you have the freedom to ignore it. It's not important to you.

Sometimes it helps to break down a word so we can understand it better. The message board is called R A D I O - M U T E. Mute modifies radio in this particular example. As in: Shhhh!!!. Radio is sleeping now.

So, it seems obvious that the point of the message board is to discover and/or promote artists who receive little or no radio airplay. I think it's also safe to include any mass-media endeavor to disseminate art.

Maybe in some nineteenth-century Hungarian village the popular music was interesting BECAUSE THEY HAD TO MAKE IT THEMSELVES!

They didn't wait around for VH1 to drop some culture on top of them.

So stop with these idiotic threads.

Thank you for talking with Roivas.

I would agree in principle with this, in that music is as great/awful today as ever, and is not in decline. However, I do disagree on the onr point that there is not a palpable difference between today's pop/rock radio and that of some other period previous to this. I can provide much evidence of this. That's not to say music is worse, because actually I think it is contuinually growing, but it is simple enough to compare today's playlists (which are basically identical nationwide) to those of yore. Pop music has always been commercial goods, but the music has had much more of a processed feel then ever before. I find this actually kind of entertaining in its own sick way.

We don't have a need to talk about this except in passing here, though. We are a collection of people who have already figured out that the "normal" channels of distributing music have long been useless, and hey, I like to see new people show up who are on board with this.

However, I do find it amusing when people come in here with the OMG threads, like that laughable "Before The Music Dies" DVD where a bunch of has-beens and aging hippies and some clueless pseudo-hippies talk about how no onw makes music that they can understand. Looking at the trailer, you get one guy interviewing teenagers that like Ashlee Simpson and never heard Bob Dylan. Where did he conduct this interview? Outside one of her concert arenas? Does someone honestly think that every teenager is as clueless as the ones portrayed in the contrived "random" sampling?

I would close this by saying music is as healthy as ever. As Ashlee and Jessica and other wonderful bimbos litter the radios, I am having a wonderful time NOT listening the radio...like Roivas, like most of us here...I have it on, er, "mute"