Maybe this belongs in Non-Hip discussion (feel free to move it), but....
Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay a $10-million settlement after an investigation by New York's attorney general uncovered a scheme that paid radio station employees to play certain artists.
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This might explain why we hear such crap on the radio so consitently. (They even mention Celine Dion, OutKast, Pink in the article.... three that are on my list of crap.)
sorry. looks like i had a cut/paste blowout.
thanks chris.
Yet the same record companies wonder why people download music.
I read another article somewhere saying that... it made particular mention of Jennifer Lopez, whose music lands firmly in the "crap" category as far as I'm concerned!
I do respectfully disagree with Chris that OutKast is crap... they are one of the few rap music acts that are listenable to me... some of their music is actually quite good. But that's just my opinion, to each his/her own, yadda yadda yadda...
Oh man, I thought Sony had some dirt on the Payola$. You've got the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeys of a stranger.
sorry to regurgitate this post, but I saw this followup story:
Spitzer says FCC 'undermining' payola probe
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cferneyh Wrote:Oh man, I thought Sony had some dirt on the Payola$. You've got the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeys of a stranger.
Way to bring this thread around to a Hip discussion.... Now I need a Rock N Hyde reference. :lol: