Streaming video and audio (or not)

The other day my friend Ryan, who works in the IT dept. at Goshen College, was complaining about the phenomenal amount of bandwidth people at the college were using to watch free streaming videos on YouTube.

Today at work, I was looking for some new songs to listen to and decided to see if I could find free streaming audio. As far as I can tell, there's no such thing. Yahoo has an extensive internet "radio station", but I can't choose a specific song to listen to. Ironically, I can find just about any song I want in video form, (and then just listen to it).

I can't help but marvel at the irony that the video, which takes more money to produce and uses more internet bandwidth, is easier to find than the audio.