I use FM for WNRN out of Cville and NPR. The rest is a constant repeat as you said.
I guess it's just us. I'm always able to find all kinds of unique stuff on radio, especially if there's a college nearby.
To the people complaining you hear the same stuff - isn't that what you're doing when you download things? At least with a radio station there's someone else choosing the music.
Between 88.1 and 90.9 is the sweet spot for more independent music.
I mean I worked in a bar. I probably saw 2000 bands live and have 5000 comped CDs from promoters - everything from TV on the Radio originals to the Killers. I saw Dresden Dolls play for 15 people long before they started opening for Nine Inch Nails, etc. I never bothered digitizing any of these promo CDs. Hell the last time I probably wore earphones I was 16 in 1989.
We had Sirius but talk about repetitive. They just make a playlist then repeat the same songs every couple of hours. It's super annoying on the 60s, 70s, 80s channels. There's three fucking decades of music and I'm hearing the same songs three times a day on road trips. It got to be where the only thing I could stand on Sirius is Joel Osteen and I hate everything he stands for, but he is a good storyteller.
Long live FM! I get that much of it sucks, but the work involved in paying a subscription service, then downloading shit just to listen to?
Seems like work to me.