Now, there’s a novelty. The Guardian and lots of other press have been waxing lyrical over the fact that digital radio sales are beginning to outstrip analog radio sales. There’s also lots of fornication over The Bug because — shock, horror — it can pause, rewind and record live radio. Plus, it has USB connectivity, an SD slot and can play MP3s. It’s also portable. Everyone’s impressed with the fact you can now get loads of digital radio stations with pristine quality sound.

I’m not Everyone though. If you have Sky Digital, you can get scores of digital radio stations. Catering for most commercial tastes, and those for ethnic minorities. If you have The Bug and you live where I do, you pretty much get all the BBC ones, MFR and a few other non-descript ones. Take, Core.. oooh look, they play Avril Lavigne. Cutting edge huh?

I already have the digital radio I need. Whilst I cannot pause and rewind live playback. I can record – timed if I want too. I can chop recordings into individual songs, and I have a choice of thousands of channels. I have MP3 support, USB connectivity. And, most importantly, radio plays the music I want to listen to. Some channels are commercial, but don’t play commercials. They support unknown artists. They don’t compress the hell out of the music either to make them sound good on little speakers either. Wanna know what it’s called? It’s called the internet.