Music should be free. But it isn't. Not yet anyway.
A revolution continues now....

...But it isn't. Yet.

Think about it. You expect music to be free. After all, you have the "right" to listen to music for free if you want to. Or do you?

    // One CD: $13.99.
    // iPod: $249-$349.
    // iTunes/Musicmatch download: $.99 each.
    // Napster/Rhapsody membership: $9.95-14.99 a month.
    // Illegal downloads: an RIAA lawsuit.
    // Sirus/XM: $12.95 a month plus up to $199 for the receiver.
    // Commercial FM stations: 12-15+ minutes of commercials per hour.
    // MTV/VH1: at least $35 a month to your cable/satellite provider.

So actually, your "free" music isn't really. But we think it should be. For tens of thousands of listeners to RadioU and viewers of TVU Music Television every week, it already is.

Here at RadioU and TVU, we don't charge a monthly subscription fee. We don't charge a per-song fee. We don't play 12+ minutes of commercials every hour -- do you realize that would be two and a half months' worth of commercials per year?! And you don't need an expensive portable music player to hear us.

Basically, we think that the music we play is too important to too many people for us to start charging them to listen to it! Music means something. To some of our listeners and viewers, it means everything. If you don't believe us, head on over to our stories page for a while. We want the music to be FREE to as many people as possible. That's why we hope YOU'LL be willing to help us pay for this thing.

We need your help to Unleash The Music.

Without commercials, and without charging you to listen to RadioU or watch TVU, we can't stay on the air. Which means the music dies. Think about it. Where else could we get the money? We have no shareholders. We have no big businesses funneling money to us.

This isn't about making money. We're non-profit, which means that according to Federal law, we're not even ALLOWED to make money here!

This is about YOU. And the other tens of thousands of listeners and viewers a week who need the music but who will never pay. That's right... 98% of them will never pay. In fact, we believe they shouldn't HAVE to pay. We exist to reach them with this music. And we want to do that for free.

So maybe you could be part of the other two percent.

Help us Unleash The Music. Donate now.