Bought this from Canadian Tire a few days back. I needed a new flashlight to replace my old one that I purchased from the same store a few years ago … least that one worked for the duration!! This one I charged after purchasing, turned it on … and nothing!! Chinese manufactured crap!! So yesterday, running around doing my Sunday errands, my joe jobs, went back to return it (not before I threw it on the ground and snapped this beauty, showing my feelings … and frustrations). Got my money back, but not my money wasting my electricity futilely charging it for 12 hours!! Believe me, if they would have said shit … I would have caused shit!!
Also went to the liquor store on Sunday to pick up some booze … said ‘some’ y’all, lol!! Paying for my purchase, I started chatting it up the cashier … it’s what I do, it’s what I am, I’m just a rock ‘n roll man … about the music playing, since I noticed it wasn’t regular radio station shit playing over their speakers as it had been in the past. He indicated to me that recently they were forced to stop, had to do with copyright infringements, essentially the LCBO was previously playing radio station music, without compensating them!! As I was beginning to leave, after finishing paying, he said this to me, brilliantly summarizing his thoughts … putting it into a nutshell!!
“it’s pathetic, it’s just music” – LCBO employee
… couldn’t agree more dude, just fucking music!!
danistrulytheman 
April 11, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Having some insight into the music industry.. royalties, it’s not JUST fucking music, it’s how the bands get paid. Pilfering the music from the radio station doesn’t pay their bills. SOCAN paid us a visit too and now we have a ‘satellite’ service, still basically crap but legal,lol. Besides,how could you hear the music with all your bottles rattlin’ and the drunks vomiting?
April 11, 2011 at 8:54 pm
The real money to be made for bands is through concerts and touring, not through radio airplay. I drive in my car listening to the radio not paying anyone one cent to do so. If I was a small business owner would do the same, playing the radio … a station that I like. I can’t recall reading about any major band or artist making an issue of this, so don’t think that they care. This isn’t filesharing, this isn’t Napster!!
April 11, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Bands can’t tour and do concerts when they can’t afford to fuel their buses. (not everyone is backed by a big label) The radio station IS paying a license fee so YOU can listen, but if another business plays the station for their customers, they have to have a license to re-distribute the music. SOCAN looks out for the bands, so don’t be a cheap bastard, pay them their dues!