[Puppage]

Most of the new talent just plain sucks

Man, you got that right!

[Dutch Boy]

I agree. There are few groups that have any real talent. The songs are trashy. Many also just are dancing to tracks and not actually singing out of the studio where there voices can be manipulated into sounding mediocre.

I buy CD’s every now and then. A couple a year. One of my last ones was Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest hits. That was from when they were a blues band. Long before they became pop. I looked for about 15 years for it to replace an album. I found a Dutch release of it on Amazon.

[ChildOfThe60s]

there is no promise of an answer to a potentially more profound predicament: a creative drought and a corresponding lack of artists who ignite consumers’ interest in buying music

And that is the fault of the record companies. They simply don't look for and promote real musical talent. For too many years they have pushed whiney bimbos flashing skin on the CD cover. Plus the move to computer generated percussion has made nearly everything sound mechanical. Ginger Baker where are you when we need you?