CDs don't really sell anymore. Not like they used to, since everyone can download their music online for free. So who buys CDs nowadays? People who don't have enough money or resources to have internet access/mp3 players, but who do have enough money for CDs. So...people who make 10,000-20,000 a year? I think this may explain why music keeps getting shittier. Music is being made for lower income people who will buy the records.
Why are the poor underrepresented in politics? Cause they don't vote. Why isn't music I like played on the radio? Because Girl Talk's album is the only one I've paid for in ~4 years.
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I love your indirect conclusion that poor people do not like good music.
Although, the quality of music is subjective, i suppose it makes sense that wealthy people would want to differentiate themselves from the poor in every aspect possible, therefore the rich would chose to like music that is different from what the poor prefer. In this respect, it's not that music on the radio is shitty in general, it's just shitty to you, a person who is not poor!
Eat it!
I still buy CDs because I like to have physical copies of them. it makes me happy when I get a new CD, and the feeling is not mutual when I purchase an album from itunes. I am also rich and like good music.
I think you're neglecting the fact that some of the CDs you (garrett) want to buy are not even sold at Worst Buy and that probably only 2 or 3 percent of the albums you own would be considered "successful" in terms of albums sold. You are an anomaly anyway.
I also enjoyed the implication that poor people have poor taste in music. It's an interesting theory, but I like to think the real reason that music you and I like isn't played on the radio is just because we're not the sheep that that crap is mass marketed toward. It's for the teen-aged crowd and people who otherwise have no minds of their own.
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