Whats morally right?

[Iron Zombius]

It looks like I have been give the go ahead for a metal show on the local community radio station (107.3 albury if anyone has an iphone...)

what is the morally right way to gain new material for the show...do i...

a) download like a demon on limewire?

or

b) pretend the show is bigger than it is and hit up record labels for samples?

the station doesnt give a crap what i do, just wanna know if i should!

 

[Goreripper]

Download heaps of shit. If they're being played on the radio, no one will care. Also, there's no need to pretend the show is bigger than it is. Albury is a big town. Every label peddling metal in the country will bend over backwards to supply your show. Hit me up with a PM and I'll send you my contacts.

 

[FerretallicA]

c) Download like a demon on torrents, news groups, Rapidshare, eMule, and pretty much anthing EXCEPT Limewire.

I vote (c) over (a).

Oh yeah, (d), rape the MP3 collection of someone who already has a shitload of music sitting on their hard drive nicely structured and sorted.

 

[TinMan666]

option b.

 

[phlogiston]

Morally? I'd go b) as well. Gore's probably right, but b) is the right thing to do.

 

[Goreripper]

So, lie over steal then, fellas?

 

[Goreripper]

So, lie over steal then, fellas?

 

[Spiff]

I think b) is fine.

 

[salty]

Technically all radio stations have to have the appropriate licenses to pay for the rights to broadcast music (although I believe most public radio stations only report their playlists at certain times of the year...commercial stations like Triple J and Triple M report what they play automatically) so REALLY, you could be generating royaties for some bands regardelss of having bought their album or not.

Sure, morally you should be buying their music first...but in a performance (broadcast) royalty sense, it doesn't matter either way because the radio station will have covered everything with their licenses.

So you could think of yourself as a sort of radio station Robin Hood...stealing from the rich (the record label by not buying the CD...who take the biggest cut on sales) and giving to the poor (via broadcast royalties going to the songwriters/band...unless they've signed away all of their publishing).

 

[Goreripper]

Record labels usually supply promos for airplay, which the band get no revenue for anyway. If your station reports their playlists, the artists get a broadcast royalty instead, as salty has pointed out. So it really doesn't matter if you download stuff for airplay, as long as you aren't then making copies and handing them out. As for b), like I said, you don't need to pretend the show is big. As long as you can show them it's a real show that's on air regularly, most labels will supply you with stuff (a lot of them now only supply downloads anyway, as it turns out).

 

[salty]

Yeha the days of physical promos are heading out the window.

It's all subscription podcasts and special audio streaming programs and shit now.

 

[Priest of Evil]

Do whatever you're most comfortable with.
The last radio station I worked at had us paying $2 per show to go to air on top of yearly station membership. Fuck them and their community.

 

[Iron Zombius]

$2 per show...is that per programed weekly timeslot, or is that everytime you go on air?

I have to pay $75 per quarter or my show gets the can

 

[Goreripper]

Yeah I pay $66 per quarter for my show too. That's not too bad considering the corrupt fuckers at the place I was at before now wanted $20 per hour.

 

[Priest of Evil]

$2 per show...is that per programed weekly timeslot, or is that everytime you go on air?

I have to pay $75 per quarter or my show gets the can

everytime you go to air plus the annual membership fee which was around $100 or something. Maybe it wasnt so bad after all.