i'm only gonna say this once because badgering everyone about how they should do such and such is rarely a good idea.
having said that, wfmu is one of the most amazing musical institutions in america. they're a freeform, which means that there's no set top 40 shit going on, and the music is completely up to the dj. the only rules are those of the fcc (boo! hiss!).
they don't do ads, cause no one likes ads. all the money that runs tha station comes from their two week long pledge drive, and in the next year there are a bunch of looming problems (they have to move the station across the street to the tune of $40,000 and a %500 monthly rent increase, and they need a new transmitter which will cost $80,000). also: someone on the bus today was telling me about this whole recession thing that's happening right about now.
toss them a sawbuck if you can. going all sorts of ron paul over this thing is sounding like the way to do a thing.
public radio gives away coffee cups and national geographic dvds of hump-back whales lactating on celtic dancers and whatever. WFMU gives out compilations made by the station djs, who all have better taste in music than you thought was humanly capable, as well as a zillion other things. last year i got a floaty pen that makes lynard skynards airplane crash into a swamp when you tip it sideways. when you tip it the other way the plane coems back out of the swamp and no one died. it's so cool.
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