After reading 70-something entries, there probably isn't much I can say, but, again, we are, as a society, pretty much led about by the few in Madison Avenue, or it's equivalent. For the most part, music is marketed on the basis of what has already sold, and generated revenue. Music is a business, predicated on making money, and few people will gamble with the rent, so to speak. The indie labels are the only ones these days who can really take a risk, since they don't have that much money (read influence on the total picture (pardon my mixed metaphors) of the 'music scene'). Actually, the technology that lets us 'chat' like this, is allowing more and diversse music to become available to a wider audience, since the major expenses attached to the commercial release of an album can be avoided.