So, if you don’t mind shelling out the five spot (which isn’t bad if it didn’t involve the old “here’s my credit card number to do with what you like. Go ahead and overcharge me for something I didn’t agree to while I search every crevice of your website to find the “cancel” link.), then rdio is your new home.

For those who prefer to keep their plastic in their wallet which they kick back to some tunes, here’s the skinny:

For a century, once they learned how to capture music and sell it and commercialized it and ruined it, we have been owned and manipulated by corporate record labels and force-fed crap for what got to be, at the end of that dark period, a CD full of fluff (like :20 tracks of garbage) for 20 dollars!! 20 bucks for what?

These corporate stuff-shirts muscled in and basically turned the musician into a vagabond begging these all powerful A and R’s to “like” their stuff, so they sell-out, wear a pink clown suit or whatever’s “hot” just so this guy could shine em up and merchandise them, then sell them for outrageous money and take 90%, only to change the direction of the social wind, i order to keep things fresh and new. Then they dump the drug addict musician who they pumped full of drugs and women for years, while they milked them dry.

BUT GUESS WHAT??? It’s all over!! Yes, indeed, we are in a golden age, my friends! First it was Napster. Now we could download music free and put them on our CD’s (which we still paid for) Well, the CEO’s said, “No way!” and took the downloaders to task, scaring them with a handful of illegal lawsuits.

Then they got their hoes, I mean the artists on their labels (all the big ones) to come out and say, “Please you are stealing from us!” They tightened up for a minute, but the floodgates were opened!! (sorry, I get teary eyed just thinking about all the music pimps who are out of work! lol)

So, they got with napster and decided to charge people, and the sheep bit, somehow feeling vindicated by dropping the 9.99 or whatever. But you had grokster and limewire and this and that.

Also, what was happening was the other million artists in the world loved it. They threw their stuff all over the place and the ones that were signed but treated like crap because they weren’t the cash cow, said, “screw you” and thought innovatively. Make your money at shows, get supported by donations from your fanbase, street corner musicians.

Names like RadioHead started give stuff out. Musicians HATE the labels and more and more and more are down with the web. They just want a way to get paid and the more adventurous ones are doing just that. Instead of music being a microcosm of the US, where 2% control 98% of the money, a whole host of mid-level artists, who are just as talented and FREE to express, are now given a way to do just that and be heard.

Oh, but the vermon were squirming. They were trying everything. LaLa (which got bought up by Apple) started the STREAMING” oh new thing. (Keep in mind, by now, half the country already had an MP3 collection beyond their dreams and the other half were only kept at bay by fear and guilt tactics.) So, now they take all the music in the world and organize it nice and pretty with the covers and stuff, and the let us share all of our music, which we were already doing, but they will pretty it up and, GET THIS, they will let us share on facebook with one click ohhhh.

They’ll also offer these little crappy features and charge you to enjoy the experience with them. OK. Meanwhile the hackers are out making software that rips the stream out of the air, for free. Not to mention, you got grooveshark, which hangs right in there at the end of the day, since it’s the same internet; they only change the way they decorate the stuff.

They are just about at the end of their rope with this crap. Sianara, vermin. I personally have more music than I could handle right now, so I’m good. They have nothing more for me. Grooveshar will grow and something else will be out until we finally get to the inevitable end of all this.

FREE MUSIC FOR ALL!! SAVE YOUR MONEY (although it’s about so much more than the 5 spot.

Hey, for what it’s worth, it was a great article, informative, and that’s what you do. No offense, but this is the final act. Then, it’s curtains.

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that’s not promising — these are music junkies, and if the product’s not sticky enough to keep them coming back, it’s not going to work with the consumer mass market in the long term.