Billy,

"That's my take on it...?" That's Brian's line, you thief! ;-)

Regarding your comments about promoting your music by giving it away for free, I have one more tidbit to offer. I was doing some research on FCC Title 47 CFR Part 15 regarding low power AM Stations (LPAM) http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-mcafee&p=fcc%20part%2015&type= and discovered that there are literally thousands of community based low power AM and FM stations operating around the country and oversees and they are streaming!

They're also called micro broadcasters because at the frequency at which they broadcast at there is no FCC license required and the PROs don't pay attention to them, so your music is played next to the bigs.

The radio industry calls them Pirate Radio but if they are broadcasting in compliance with FCC there is nothing Pirate about them except for the fact that they are pirating away attention from big broadcasters.

If you can't pay your way to radio the next best way to get radio's attention is to compete with them and the bigs are looking.

There are several sites with station lists, here just one: http://www.part15.us/stationlistings