[quote name='paddlefoot']Most music fans I know (at least the ones that buy almost a CD a week) don't even listen to the radio. They can't stand it. Everything from repetition to censorship makes them abhor it. I listen to the radio, but then again I haven't bought a CD in a year.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. I haven't had any impulse to buy any huge new releases for a long time now as most of my CD purchases have been older material. Everything to me on the pop stations sound exactly the same these days - the same synthetic drum beat, the same tin canned lyrics, the same commercialized for your Soccer Mom's enjoyment in the mini van as she drives her spoiled brats to soccer practice.
Until the record industry realizes that this tin can crap is what's hurting them a lot then things won't change. But I suspect that any chance of that change happening won't happen. Any bands or artists today who have potential are not given a real chance since, after all, they don't become huge right away so they are easily discarded for whatever the label will push next to be the "next big thing."