this letter arived from a solidary user from USA and should be widely read not only by the management. Thanks !

March 27, 2009

To the management of last.fm,

On Tuesday, 24 March 2009, last.fm announced that it would begin discriminating against last.fm users outside of the “Big Three” countries—the UK, the USA, and Germany—by charging the outsiders for formerly free radio streaming services, while the same services remained free to users who constituted geographical insiders. This letter of protest is written in the name of all last.fm users, both subscribers and non-subscribers, insiders and outsiders, who object to the…

first please read the blog
http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement

We want a fair lastfm, the decission to close the radios to some countries is wrong and is discriminatory. We want another solution!

Did we miss the answer for this often questioned “Why are these three countries excluded?”? what makes Germans, British and Americans different to the rest of the world???

open project "Tag - Radiostations" from multi culti world

What are the reasons to create Tag Stations ?

• we can only connect 200 artists to our “multi culti world” group radio, the world is much bigger .. I feel always like an executioner when I have to cancel an artist if I like to put a new artist in.

• sometimes only one song of artist is great, or it’s a limited artist project so it’s a nice possibility to take only this song or songs and not the whole connection to an artist.

• we can get our…

open project "Tag - Radiostations" from multi culti world

What are the reasons to create Tag Stations ?

• we can only connect 200 artists to our “multi culti world” group radio, the world is much bigger .. I feel always like an executioner when I have to cancel an artist if I like to put a new artist in.

• sometimes only one song of artist is great, or it’s a limited artist project so it’s a nice possibility to take only this song or songs and not the whole connection to an artist.

• we can get our…

Also if you don't have so much money you can get a lot of free music on lastfm

Vavamuffin reggae hip hop >> Poland
Renato Ventura world fusion instrumental >>italy
Serkan Süleymaniye sufi >>turkish
Emma Forman acoustic female vocalist folk >>scotish
Castanets folk new weird america >> america
La Raíz fusion, patchanka, reggae ska fusion >> spain
Sudironda folk, tarantella traditional >>italy
Corrientes female vocalists, chillout, funny folk >>cuba

20.02.09
Brian Dunn folk, marijuana, hick-hop >> america
Patchanka ska, folk, reggae, latin >>denmark (only 1 song)
Fritanga ska, latin rock, ragga, alternativo >> ???

21.02.09
Los Microbios ska, rock, hip-hop,…