Do you even buy music anymore??

The prices of CDs are outrageous these days. I enjoy music but a lot of my music is much older and were bought years ago, that I play on CDs. Its been a while since a brand new CD has really inspired me to purchase anything. That's not due to the lack of quality a lot of the time, but a lot of CDs these days are marketed around one song, maybe two good songs, and have a lot of useless filler. Very rarely can I justify opening my wallet for that. It is just much easier to get the songs I want off of the legal channels off of the Internet then to actually buy a CD. Therefore, I have limited my CD purchasing. Its just an expense that I can no longer justify. Just too much for too little quality. If the prices lowered, then I might think a bit harder, but I doubt that is going to happen any time soon.

If you are referring to mainstream music, I totally agree with you; it's has such a mass-produced, one-use/disposable, empty feel. Otherwise I think independant musicians, or bands on smaller record labels have more talent. They are unaffected by the directions of greedy producers and whatnot of popular music.