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Funny how these things change isn’t it? Wonder how long it will be before the Last.fm About page is revised and edited now that they’ve sold out and that democratic and independent music are lower priorities than making money?

I guess it’s true what they say: most people have a price for their ideals. It’s sad :(

Clipmarked from www.last.fm:

Back in the 20th Century, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel were running an online record label whose mission was to get independent music out to the people who wanted to hear it. A few years later, university student Richard Jones started tracking what he and his friends were listening to on their computers with a project he called Audioscrobbler. Last.fm brought these ideas and desires together. Luckily, these days it’s about letting people choose the music themselves – rather than subjecting the world to Felix’s music taste (or we’d all be listening to Elvis and Japanese surf garage). Last.fm has always been about making music culture more democratic: everyone listening to music how they want to, when they want to. Without a middle man making your decisions for you.