I think the main thing I was going to say was something along the lines of – I’ve loved having Spotify – all these thousands of hours of potential listening at my fingertips. But… I just end up listening to the same stuff over and over, rather than seeking out new stuff. I have made loads of playlists of stuff I’d like to listen to, just, it always seems easier to go with what I know. On the radio, you get played a load of stuff you wouldn’t otherwise have downloaded etc. It’s like a mate introducing you to new bands/singers whom you might otherwise never have heard of. And the banter’s brilliant. And and and – there’s loads of cool reasons for talk radio to exist. I was just about to diss a load of Radio One djs who i can’t stand, but thought that might be unnecessary and harsh – just basically, there are a load of djs out there who might make it seem like MP3 downloads are the way to go, but there are a whole load of others who totally make up for them. Like most of the ones on 6Music.

that said, even though i’m over a year out of date, i’ll still chuck in my reasons for reckoning i should get an ipod (for next time the comp comes around…): walking is a big part of my losing weight TYSIC goal, and having a load of my favourite music melting my eardrums would make it heaps easier. seeing as i’m doing this as a sponsored thing, to raise funds for the place i work for, the ipod would be helping me bascially keep my job. that said, i think possibly terry greene should have got it – having a scroobius pip album and not being able to listen to it is surely the saddest thing in the whole wide world! if i had won it, i may have given it to him for that alone. well, possibly – i’d have my own Dan le Sac V SP tracks to listen to, so maybe not!

I’m just catching up with your blog (I am rubbish at daily reading, but do catch up eventually). I’ve not yet posted about TYSIC on here either but I plan to blog about it this weekend when I can give it the time and length it deserves.
I do agree with what you say about the download generation, but I also agree with some of the comments to a point, the sense of community from listening to a show with others is something special (sometimes). However, as you say, there are podcasts! A few of your TYSIC followers are also podophiles (as named by Michael Legge) and we listen to a podcast (#PreciousLittle) together and tweet along, we get to choose the time, comment together and all is well. You could apply this to anything, I have also tweeted along to a #filmclub where we all watched a DVD together (Labyrinth in case you were wondering). We are a more mobilised generation, and can keep the sense of community, it just takes a little effort and my favourite part of all, planning (I am such a nerd I love planning). Do feel free to use the tweet along idea for one of your games.

I don’t want another ipod, so won’t comment on that part, but thanks for the offer.

Listening to radio isn’t just about the content…it’s about communing with the presenter and the other listeners. When we listened to John Peel or Anny Nightingale it made us feel part of a community…we had mates.

Here’s a weird thing…I have DVDs of films, good films, films I want to watch, but I’ve never watched them. But when ‘Time Cop’ came on the telly the other night, instead of putting a DVD on, I watched van Damme police the very fabric of time “with” the audience of dozens around the country, despite it being a work of desperate mediocrity and laughable scientific pretext. And I’ve seen it before! It just seemed more fun at the time to do that than be “alone” with my self-selected DVD.

Anyway, I’m confusing the issue by bringing up poor quality content, rather than sticking to the main point, which is, sitting in a room choosing songs you like can’t beat the air-punching thrill of doing the washing up and hearing the radio choose a song you like…

I’d immediately put it on eBay, and use the proceeds to buy myself food for two months so that I can actually feed my body in order to finish this degree without collapsing at my desk from starvation.

So please: I am poor, I am hungry, I am trying to improve myself… If I can’t feed myself then I’ll end up as a homeless junkie working street corners just to scrounge together enough pennies so that I can buy myself a rock to get me through the bitter cold of the next harsh winter…

The problem with money could easily be solved by getting a job, but there are 2 problems with that. 1, I’m 16, and my exams are in a couple of months, so revising is a higher priority, and 2, I live in the Scottish highlands, so even if I had the time to get a part time job, there simply aren’t any within an hours drive of me.

So, ummmm, yeah. An MP3 player would be nice.

I have an iPhone and a shuffle for jogging so I don’t need the MP3 player. But my friend in Lithuania’s broke and she can’t afford to replace it, so I’d give it to her. We both work for art galleries so we are both generally broke and underpaid!

why i would like an ipod requires context…

i live in france in a town in the middle of nowhere (in fact it’s only an hour south of paris but certainly feels like that way). My town has a speaker system set up so that broadcasts the town’s local commercial radio, the joy of which follows you wherever you go. I’m training for a marathon at the moment so could really do with something to block out the annoying adverts (avez-vous pensé de votre enterrement? appelez monsieur harreau pour discuter touts vos besoins après la mort) and the terrible music.The french stuff is fine, it’s the terrible choices of english music that is upsetting, I heard 50 Cent and The Nolans in the space of one run – although it did make me run faster in attempt to get away, so maybe an ipod would be counter-productive..?

and also getting it to me in france might be a challenge, but a fun one perhaps?

I do have an ipod, there is no sob story here I’m afraid. There’s a small issue with the headphone socket being broken so music can only be listened to through one ear at a time. It’s not that sad or desperate. It hampers me at the gym when I’m on the running machine and I’m trying to run to a World Inferno song, but I’ve got dance music coming in the other ear-hole and I start doing a kind of mad-crazy limp run. However it is also an aid on trains for eavesdropping.

The real bargaining chip here is cake. I promise that I would in return make you a cake. An epic cake. Last summer I spent two days making the first ever female ginger pope cake: http://missknee.wordpress.com/
Perhaps a pink hitler lookalike head would be in order? An optimism cake? All though I’m not quite sure what an optimism cake looks like. Black-out goggles? An unbreakable hopeful helmet?

As for the radio argument it’ll be sad to lose BBC6, I didn’t even know it existed until the twitter campaign started. If only they’d get rid of Chris Moyles (not that that would improve radio 1 much, but they’d save a few pennies), he’s just so rude to everyone. If I wanted to hear someone being obnoxious I’d go and yell something nasty about Jeremy Clarkson outside my neighbour’s house.

I feel a bit awkward about leaving this comment, but as I’ll spend it begging for some electronic music-face-gear I’ll just go and do it.

I’m one of those seven freaks who follow the UK comedy scene from the continent (in my case, Holland. I am Dutch myself; officially. English is my second language. It is. It really is. How could I convince you? Erm… Shex! (I am the only Dutch person who learnt the mock-Dutch accent made famous by Steve McLaren and, erm, Mike Myers) Yes. I have no life.(I like brackets.))).

I lost my mp3-player (a Phillips, oh yeah) when I was staying in a horribly dingy Youth Hostel in London . I suspect the slightly frightening Argentinian alcoholic Physician (this is what he called himself (not the alcoholic bit, obviously)) took it, trying to trade it for some booze. I pitied him so didn’t go after him. Also, as I said, I was scared of him.

I believe I deserve the i-Pod for prolonging the misery of this clearly troubled man and not helping him trying to sort out his problems. Also: I’m foreign, so that’s double points.

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I am ashamed of what I have become.

I hope I can get tickets for the Brighton gig. Good luck with the 10 year program!

a) Mine is broken and I need something to drown out the horrible music that the kids at the back of the bus play every morning

b) I was an integral, yet invisible part of the 24 hour, 2005 minutes and 36 hour shows.. yes indeed, I was one of the Pleasance Dome bar supervisors that kept having to come upstairs and turn the air conditioning back on. I worked in that bar for 4 years and never did find out why it had air con that had to be reset every 2 hours. So I think for my services to keeping everyone cool, I should get something. Even a certificate really. But you can’t listen to music on a certificate….