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quoted 11 lines I do have a radio show. I play techno. I know I have a a fairly big

>I do have a radio show. I play techno. I know I have a a fairly big >following but I never get phone calls. One week I decided not to >announce any song titles. Still no phone calls. Check with my friends >in the next couple of days, and yeah, they had listened but they didn't >care about the song titles. They are only listening to enjoy and to be >especially exposed to somethhing they can't get anywhere else. (in a >city of 80000). > >sorry or the long pointless(?) rant, but I feel strongly about college >radio and I never see my show as an ad, cause I know people aren't going >to run out and buy Disjecta, but they do enjoy when they hear it.

In all seriousness folks, let's face it. For probably the majority of people, music is disposeable entertainment. Fun, interesting, catchy, enjoyable, but not _important_. Getting a hard-to-find record means going to the Tower in the next town. We are psychotic enough that we care passionately about the music we enjoy, and we'll go through relatively insane measures in order to possess it ... because that's the only way we know we'll _ever_again_ get to hear a particular song in this genre that is practically ignored by mainstream media. We even make cute little discographies and (get this) Internet mailing lists. Being a trainspotter practically comes with the territory. And if you really care deeply enough about acquiring something, especially if you care more than everybody else, you're likely to find it eventually. I'm not passing value judgments here, nor am I speaking for everyone on the list, and remember that "loony" is in the mind of the beholder. I figure it's safe to say, though, that people like this are in the minority. Just putting everything in perspective. --Seofon