In response to the recent article, "Napster woes continue on campus," Sept. 29, students should take themselves off the Napster feeding tube. Napster is a waste of time and money.

Instead, try spending just a little more time checking out artists other than those being mercilessly pumped into your system from MTV and the Billboard charts. And spend just a little more money buying CDs at City Lights Records, 316 E. College Ave. that you can actually stomach a listen to from beginning to end.

Although it wouldn't be a disaster for most Penn State students to go ahead and use an illegal file-sharing service.

According to www.napster.psu.edu, the "Penn State Top Tracks" include garbage from such diverse artists as Coldplay, Black-Eyed Peas and Kelly Clarkson.

Despite what the RIAA and its high-profile poster-boy Graham Spanier would have you believe, those guys aren't exactly hurting. No, that would be my ears.

Check out online radio station woxy.com or The Lion 90.7 F.M. right in State College to find some new and diverse music. Or listen more closely the next time you're watching MTV, they play the best stuff in the background. Whatever you do, don't just lie back and allow yourself to be force-fed, because we all know that'd be ridiculous.