Yes, Xmastime, It IS Crazy!" - Xmastime fans

It's crazy that for decades and decades the radio played popular songs released by record companies & we'd all huddle up next to our radios with tape recorders WAITING for those songs to be played so we could record them & while yes it was "illegal" wink, wink, it was also a tacit arrangement to keep people excited about the songs they liked - I can promise you the next time a rock star gets pissed off hearing a fan tell them their "omg I used to huddle up next to my radio waiting to record your song when it came on the radio!!" story will be the first one - and yet having a snippet of a song pop up in a single episode of a television show can lead to entire seasons not being allowed to be stream because of insane licensing deals from the 1960s.