I caught this article the other day and just had to put my two cents in. Apparently xm radio is canceling fungus 53 and replacing it with a 24 hour AC/DC channel. Don’t get me wrong, AC/DC rocks it hard, but don’t they get enough play on every other piece of media these days that they need their own channel? Even after they haven’t had a decent jam in years.
The thing is I used to have a subscription and listened to fungus 53 probably the majority of the time. My problem was it was still the radio. If some shitting song came on, I couldn’t change it to the next. Maybe my mentality for music on demand has completely taken over. Or maybe I have been tainted by radio stations like WGRD that still rock Alice in Chains and claim to be “always ahead of the curve“.
To me this is just another example the corporate music muscle trying to make another dollar while they still can. My question is why wouldn’t they just make another channel on xm or sirius and market the shit out of it? Is this just a marketing ploy to get the underground music listeners to make a fuss and pay some attention the comeback of AC/DC?
I probably won’t be picking up the AC/DC record or probably even listen to it for that matter, but this whole thing rubs me the crooked way. My money and faith is on the underground music scene. But the reality is money isn’t made there (this is probably why I don’t have a lot of it). Satellite radio is turning into fuse because as companies grow they need to make more money until they explode. Let ‘em explode. As far as I’m concerned the radio still sucks. Satellite or not.