You Know What Lets Give One To Last.fm, Too!

I woke up this morning to start my daily playlist of playing whatever the hell comes up on random remembering songs I forgot I liked. In this process I always go on last.fm just to see what everyone else is currently listening to/obsessed with. (Yeah, I get a little embarrassed too when you look at my previously played tracks and the same song comes up about 15 times in a row but [I think] I'm ok with it.)

ANYWAY

As I click to look at someone's profile while I'm listening to music, some other strange sounds start coming up aside from the song that I'm currently listening to. I stumble, and many the times I have stumbled on a site that plays videos right away, or plays songs right away, or tells me congratulations I just won a free [insert random object here]. But I wasn't stumbling. Did I leave another window open? No... Is there a virus? Is this AIM being stupid again? No, MACs are better than that. Then where the hell is that sound coming from?

Then I realized. Hm.

It's coming from a banner on the side of my last.fm pages. On my profile page, on musician pages. Every page. Granted, they don't appear for you or your friends if you pay to be a subscriber... but I am not a subscriber. Normally ads don't bother me. In fact last.fm banners have previously been non instrusive and sometimes interesting (movie soundtracks, upcoming concerts etc.) UNTIL NOW.

Why the hell would they put a banner up for a Beck's beer that has random noises to it and NOT EVEN GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO MUTE IT? Is this their way of trying to get people to subscribe to the site? Not a very good ploy, for me anyway. If anything I'd stop using it. Sure, what's $3 dollars a month to not have this shit come up behind my songs and ruin them? Who cares, I'm not paying it.

Last.fm, please get off your shit horse and take that nonsense off your page. Unnecessary. You guys have lost points today. Congratulations.

Click here to air your grievances and push to have them ban audio banners. The audio banner isn't on this page. That'd be too ironic.