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As a musician I can see this is a two-way street. First, you have the artists and musicians, who create the album for you to hear in its entirety and also have to make sure there are a few singles in there that are, if not "radio friendly", friendly enough for casual listeners to hear and be interested enough to buy the CD. Or at least listen to it in it's entirety. Then, there's the consumers, who have been force-fed hundreds and hundreds of terrible, obnoxious, disgusting, pathetic excuses for "rock & roll" or "pop music" records for damn near 15 years, most of it masquerading as "alternative" as of late. It's disgusting and I don't blame consumers for being upset.

But someone hit the nail on the head a few posts back: for as many Brittney's and Korn's and Blink 182's etc, there are 10 indie bands, or bands on major labels, who don't get promotion or commercial radio airplay, but their songs and albums are far better than the trash on the radio. I usually only listen to college or independent radio stations.

Touring is still bread and butter and that's why if you like a band, you should go see them when they come to (or near) your town, and buy CD's and t-shirts from them at the shows.