Although some on air talent is, well, amateurish at best, these stations are training ground for the communication professionals of tomorrow. And even if many of the stations have limited budgets, there is no limit to imagination or musical preference. Creativity takes the place of commercial realities in college radio programming decisions. They don't put their programs on the air for money - they do it because they love what they listen to. We should all be so lucky.
Many bands have sites where their music can be heard.
In many cases, the availability of any new art form is limited by commercially dictated standards. There are economic barriers to access through commercial media channels. The nature of commercial programming is editing - the set of decisions about what will or will not be heard or seen. Every station has no more than 24 hours a day to broadcast - not every new sound can make it onto the airwaves. The Internet provides a mechanism for an artist to deal directly with their public, bypassing the limitations of commercial radio stations and middleman distribution outlets altogether.