I am ambivalent about this--I listen to a lot of contemporary pop music, and there is a lot of well written, well performed, and occasionally very profound stuff out there. Given that, there is a lot of derivative, overbearing, and generally annoying stuff out there, but there always has been, and it doesn't make me angry.

My point, I guess, is that, more than ever before, no matter what kind of music you like, you can find lots of of out there.

What bothers me, though, is that the greedy "Music Industry" that Stringsinger mentions above, has way too much power and influence--as he says, they no longer care about music at all--all they are concerned about is collecting fees, and they have more power to do it than we have to stop them.