Reply #26: If they get paid for their song being played, and you pay for the radio signal,

[MADem]

you should get something out of the bargain.

I never got paid twice for doing something once.

It seems to me the listener is paying through the nose every month, and the radio station is paying the artist, and what's the listener getting in return? Some jerk interrupting the song, shaving seconds off the beginning and end with mindless patter and commercials--the consumer is getting screwed.