[drivebyacct2]

Not only is your analogy flawed for the good reasons described, but you also don't understand Pandora.

If you stay on a single station very long, you will hear it repeat. Their catalog simply isn't that large. I can name the THREE whole Calvin Harris songs I've heard in ALL of my EDM artist playlists on Pandora.

On the other hand, I've bought a ton of albums from new artists on Amazon that I'd found through those stations.

Of course, now Spotify is just superior in basically every way and I'll happily pay for it (Or Google Music, still debating)