Ah, yes, good ol' CBC. Commercial radio really does suck ass, but CBC really does a good job with those shows that are just for that purpose. It's a shame we don't have a station like Coast 800/1040 anymore. It was so nice to have a radio station that you could turn on any time and just listen to for more than 10 minutes without wanting to one-up Van Gogh and cut both ears off.
Once upon a time I used to swap cassettes in the mail with my penpals. Downloading MP3's doesn't really have the same appeal. For a while there I really enjoyed the way you could pick a genre on MP3.com and run the top downloads as a random stream. That was a good way to find some interesting stuff, but they are no longer what they once were and even then it didn't have quite the same personal appeal as swapping cassettes in the mail with someone you'd gotten to know through letters.