And now the notion of "It's good enough for folk" has been introduced ....

If your 'artistic vision' requires the raising of lots of money, go for it; knock yourself out. But why others should have the same approach, I don't know. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I've heard far more really good music recorded on the cheap, or not recorded at all, than produced in big studios and professionally packaged and marketed.

I'm speaking, by the way, as someone who has published a couple of professional quality CDs, that received a (small) bit of air-play, etc.