In a wor (another word) NOSTALGIA!!

The music of one's youth, when we championed bad music because we and our testosterone/estrogen rebelliousness picked our music not because it was "good", but because, like the mountain, it was there. It was packaged by the music industry to sell to us in our naivity and ignorance. We bought it. Then the years passed. We had gone on to good music. When it came time for our old music to become nostalgia it was packaged again and resold to us in the newest digital formats---and again as whatever format comes next. In the future, that which was new and quite gross when we we took to it originally (to gross out our parents) become fuzzy and pink in our memory. We enhance it there---give it meaning it never had. Why? To regain our youth in a culture that tells us constantly that only youth is any good. Is Sammy Sosa really worth mega millions and was Babe Ruth only worth a few thousand dolloars?

Once again I've digressed a bit. but it's all intertwined.

Every reason given here for "why bad music sells" is valid.

BOTTOM LINE:

As my old uncle used to say, "FAME IS PROOF THAT PEOPLE ARE GULLIBLE.

Art Thieme