Posted by FunkyDevil on 11/15/77 11:25

The Chris wrote:
>
> It's not entirely true though. I can hear 'Who let the Dogs out' or
> 'Gettin Jiggy wit it' or any rap song a million times, and I'll freakin'
> hate it more each time. Some songs are just destined to be classics.
> Radio has failed in not exposing us to more music, but I'm pretty sure as
> soon as we all get old enough and started buying CD's - we weren't just
> buying what was on the radio - or I'd own NO Motorhead CD's.
>
> David Byrne/Talking Heads were an incredibly talented group who wrote
> brilliant music. He shouldn't sell himself short. He had the same
> opportunities as PolyRock - but who ever heard of them??


The fact that you even know the songs "'Who let the Dogs out' or
'Gettin Jiggy wit it'" is the point already , you know those songs
because they were played 200 times a day across the nation bought and
paid for illegally no doubt.
At the expense of other artist , who can not play the illegal game of
payola.

If David Byrne was just some guy on the internet , and you went to his
website , listened to one of his songs , I seriously doubt you would
say "incredibly talented / brilliant music "

, you would probably say that's pretty good , and then never visit the
site again.

And if David Byrne wanted to get on the radio as an independent
musician he would be blocked from doing so by the RIAA and it's member
companies.

This is the point , this is the problem.

Here is a story done by 20/20 on ABC NEWS , it covered the payola
scandal and a musician who was in fact blocked by the RIAA because of
payola.

This article is only readable now through archive.org , because it has
been removed from the ABC NEWS website , last I checked.

The archive goes back to about 2001 but I chose the 2004 link.

QUOTE :

"It seems like now, [for] corporate-owned radio stations, it's not
about the music so much as what compensation they are getting for
playing the records," says Robinson.

Industry critics call it pay for play, and they say it's happening
throughout the music business.

"The system is crooked," says Jerry Del Coliano, who publishes Inside
Radio. "You pay for access to radio stations and it's basically
legalized payola."

"You look at the radio and they got the same 30 records circulating.
These 30 records are paid for, and the minute you stop hearing a
record, that means that records not paid for anymore," says Chuck D, a
rapper with Public Enemy. "It's a different type of payola."


END QUOTE :

http://web.archive.org/web/20040811053806/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020_payola_020524.html

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