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Subscribe to commentsbama4hutMar 25th 2011 9:10PM
Maybe modern music just sucks so bad people won't even bother stealing it anymore.
Blue2Mar 26th 2011 5:10PM
@bama4hut
I agree, it's like they skipped a generation. you got the older generation that basically every one heard a million times before and you got the younger generation who have to use their weekly allowance to pay a song of iTunes. Between Journey's Don't stop Believing to Justin Bieber's Baby, Whats for the 20-year old out there?
karissaMay 27th 2011 9:13PM
@Blue2 !!!!!!! what is there out there for a 20 year old! stop listening to the radio and find something to like to listen to! You are the mindless consumer that takes what the record company's have given you, most take it with out question and "like" it but your worse. you know you don't like whats on the radio then write on an article about whats not available for your age. You have access to the internet which connects you to every "garage" band, unsigned singer, struggling rapper but no, no. No you're going to take what main stream gives you and do nothing about it but complain.