| Where's the Grooveyard? |
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| June 8, 2005 |
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 RUSH: I shouldn't say it this way, but it seems like nothing can make you people happy. We offer podcasts, we set the trend, we become the industry leader in podcasts and I'm still getting complaints from website subscribers. "What happened to the Grooveyard? So you give us podcasts but you cancel the Grooveyard, what happened to that? What's wrong with you? How come you're cheating us? How come you're screwing us? What's wrong with my computer?" Let me explain this. I should have explained this when we did this. For the same reason we can't offer music on our podcasts, on our MP3 downloads for you, we've decided to pull the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites. Now, those of you who are not subscribers to the website, this didn't affect you, but we have hundreds of thousands of them out there and the 30 minutes prior to the start of the program we just spun tunes. They were my favorite tunes from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites and we have decided we can't take the risk of sending this stuff out because we got so many e-mails. You people are recording it, and that's a problem for us because that's the same thing as including music in the podcasts. That's the illegal distribution of somebody else's copyright-owned material. So we can't do it.
What we're thinking of doing -- we're always trying to be of service here -- we're thinking about putting together a list of all the tunes in the Grooveyard play list and then releasing those to you so that you can go buy those songs somewhere online if you wish, but we just cannot continue to play the music pending a release or some kind of a deal with the music industry at large. I don't want to get into the dollars and cents, but you have no idea how prohibitive the cost is. It's not something we would even want to pass along to you, like, "Okay, we'll do the Grooveyard if you pay for it." It's not worth it. It's just too much. At some point you have to draw the line, so that's what it is. I'm flattered so many of you liked it, and I wish it could continue, because I liked it too. It's my favorite tunes from across the years and they're all oldies because I can't recognize new music now. It all sounds like the same note to me. So that's why we called it the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.
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