Free shit is great shit. It's also unappreciated shit though. For some reason we get something for free so it's almost automatically regarded as having little to no worth. Example, I blog for free so this blog is regarded as to having little to no worth. See?
Last.fm is one of those unappreciated things. It may just be the best non porn website on the internet behind the Wikipedia and YouTube, yet I've never met a soul aside from myself who uses it. If you haven't already clicked on the link (you lazy fuck), Last.fm is a free music site. No registration required and absolutely no money to be paid. It's 100% legal, safe, and won't cause your inbox to flood with emails about penis enlargement. It has virtually every artist and genre one could think of and is easy to navigate and use. It's supposed to be sort of a social networking place for music fans to discuss music and share artists, but the main attraction to the website is the radio feature where you can type in any artist or genre and get a personalized radio stream of whatever you want and artists similar to what you want.
Did I mention it's free?
How more people don't use this service boggles my mind. It's as if they enjoy contributing to buying Steve Jobs another yacht by paying a dollar per song on iTunes. Granted with Last.fm you don't own the song like you do when you buy it from iTunes, but I don't think people are bursting with pride over paying ninety-nine cents to own Taylor Swift binary code to begin with. Every time I introduce someone to this website they are amazing with what it has to offer and then proceed to never fucking use it. So to illustrate how great Last.fm is I'll run through a radio stream to demonstrate the quality of this fine interweb establishment.
I'm feeling like System of a Down tonight. Why? No idea. Probably because I don't have them on my hard drive and I heard Toxicity on the radio today.
Let's start;
Song 1 - System of a Down. Awesome, that's just what I asked for.
Song 2 - Deftones. Not what I asked for, but similar style and time period so it works
Song 3 - Serj Tankian. Again, not System, but, well, Serj WAS the singer for them so this is fine.
Song 4 - Sevendust. Must be an error in the stream or something.
Song 5 - System of a Down. See? I told you! It was an error.
Song 6 - Limp Bizket. This isn't making sense.
Song 7 - Dope. What in the fuck?
Song 8 - Slipknot. Because that sounds so similar to System of a Down.
Song 9 - Ill Nino. This is starting to really suck
Song 10 - Dope. Alright, fuck, I'm done here.
I stopped the stream at the second Dope song because I'm absolutely convinced that there is no band shittier than Dope. They make Coldplay sound like The Beatles, and Kittie the musical equivalent to Opeth. When my System of the Down radio was one-fifth Dope songs there is a problem with not only the quality of the Last.fm product, but also in what I'm assuming is the script the streaming program is run with.
So maybe there is a price to free after all. Had I been asked to pay for Last.fm maybe they would have better service and keep the Dope out of my music endeavors.
Fucking worthless.
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