Sony Busted for Payola

An email found during the investigation, from one executive at Epic to another, read: “At the end of the day, [David] Universal added Good Charlotte and Gretchen Wilson and hit Alex up for another grand and they settled for $750.”

Another, from an Epic employee to a Clear Channel programmer looked like this: “WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET AUDIOSLAVE ON WKSS THIS WEEK?!!? Whatever you can dream up, I can make it happen.”

Hopefully this will get the word out to more Americans that most commercial radio is not nothing more than an extension of large corporations looks for profits at the cost artists and integrity.

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