How do you update the "total raised" -- is it automatically or do you have to manually to it each day?

Yeah, metropolis was really lame, and the radergate idea is amazing.

KTXT is the only radio station I listen to in Lubbock and I am not an employee nor do I have a single friend that is. So to sum up: you're wrong.

They are totally “artsy fartsy” though. That point I won’t argue. Them with their damn art, always trying to generate societal progress! Don't they understand money is paramount?!

Also calling something "GAY" is far less offensive than it is simply sophomoric. As far as their "crappy" music, your auditory palate is obviously is as puerile as your choice in avatar expression.

haha

How on earth is playing emo and indie music considered societal progress? They aren't on the cutting edge of societal progress. They're a college radio station playing the same faux "underground" college radio station music that every other college radio station in the country is playing.

And they're elitists about it. They aren't cutting edge hipsters for listening to music no one else has heard about, because this is 2008, not 1998. Underground music ceased to exist when worldwide mp3 filesharing programs came in to popularity in 1999-2000. Before then, very few people knew who bands like Jimmy Eat World were because their music wasn't readily available on Napster, Audiogalaxy, Myspace, Purevolume, etc. You could only hear it through friends, indie record stores, local shows, mags like Maximumrockandroll, and word of mouth. Gone are the days when people only knew about music if it was played on MTV or pop radio

But the "artsy fartsy" KTXT hipster douchebags don't seem to realize this. The only reason they're counter culture is because no one else but them wants any part of their latte sipping, black rimmed glasses, sweater vested, indie culture. Sorry. It's not that people don't know about their lifestyle; people know about it, they're just not interested in it.

And yes, money is paramount if your radio station isn't making any money and is draining a large portion of Student Media's financial resources.

Um... I'm going to be "sophomoric" here and guess that you're gay.

And my avatar expresses that I am happy about a recent event in my life. You're just reaching for bones, sir.

Art by its very definition facilitates societal progress. It pushes boundaries. It rejects conformity. It expresses that which is otherwise inexpressible. It is never fully accepted by the mainstream. KTXT plays music that you cannot hear anywhere else in Lubbock. Hell, anywhere within a 500 mile radius of Lubbock. It embraces diversity and plays music that challenges our very idea of what music is. The term “artsy fartsy” is infantile, but it is hardly an insult.

There are hundreds of examples I could give on how and why KTXT is a “cultural beacon” to this area, but I’ll use a small yet straight-forward illustration. Every Monday night KTXT has a program called “Rhythm Rue.” During this program the station’s playlist is restricted to songs from other regions of the world. Tribal beats from Africa, French hip-hop, ect. There is no question that cultures can learn about and find commonality with one another through their music. This acceptance, however small, of cultural differences assists in our evolution as a society.

As far as your obvious distain for the imaginary, stereotypical “KTXT hipster douchebags,” I completely agree. I always see them at the coffee shop sipping lattes, wearing their glasses and sweater vests, as they proclaim their melodic superiority. They’re usually sitting right next to the blacks wearing their sagging pants, eating chicken and watermelon, as they conspire to trick our impressionable white women. On a completely unrelated note, I also enjoy asserting blanket generalizations about diverse groups of people.

A clever, yet empty response.



There is some truth to this statement. However, the word is there are some on this board who are blunt to the point of being rude. I'm just falling inline.

Thanks man. I promise I'm not actually a dick. That radio-station is just something for which I have unyeilding passion. And those motherfuckers are trying to take it.

Yeah

Unless you have a computer with internet access.

Again, the cutting edge schtick died years ago. Bury it.

I don't know if I can find one black person who fits that stereotype

However, I can find some KTXT fans who fit that stereotype. Nearly all of them, actually

It's a generalization because generally, it's a true assessment.

Whoa, looks like an AP article has been picked up by some big time Texas newspapers (DFW, Houston Chronicle, Austin Statesmen, etc...) Seems the movement is picking up steam:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%...=N&filter=0

Bad analogies. Association of genetic disposition and behavior with just pure behavior. I like the station, but it does tend to attract the "hipster" crowd.

I hope you get it back, but with a more mainstream. I don't think I've ever heard a Built to Spill or E-40 on KTXT, and you'll never hear them on the clear channel crap. I do give kudos, because of KTXT I have heard of Drive By Truckers, Richard Buckner, the D-plan and Ted Leo among others. It gets too "hipster" when you guys play 20 minutes of Mogwai.

And the shows generally suck. The hiphop one in 03 or 04 was the best show you guys had. I think the shows and their lame bytes are what make people think of ktxt being "hipster".

Keep fighting the good fight tough.

you have internet access in your vehicle?