Eh, pop radio has been like this as long as I remember (back to the 80s). Then as today, pop radio is just rotation of a few tracks every single day, and if yo

Eh, pop radio has been like this as long as I remember (back to the 80s). Then as today, pop radio is just rotation of a few tracks every single day, and if you want anything non-robotic, you go to college radio, jazz, classical, or NPR. Even before Clear Channel, pop radio stations would have you believe that Bruce Springsteen and Prince only ever recorded 3 tracks each, Radiohead recorded a single track in 1991 and then stopped, U2 got stuck at Joshua Tree, Soundgarden made a single track... I could go on. That fine tradition continues today, where at any given moment I can turn on the radio and find Portugal The Man's "Feel it Still", or one of ten other predictable tracks. Looks to me like Clear Channel just replaced one brainless programming model with another.