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[johnnie]

I don't consider people "ignorant" in buying the mainstream music that is played on mainstream radio. Some music is just for entertainment purposes only. As I said above, there is room for everyone. The sad thing about the whole music industry is that the "talented musicians" have a bitch of a time selling their work, but if they get played too often on the radio, the music elitists call them sellouts and turn their backs on them. Look at Nirvana, that was a prime example of "underground" going mainstream and the result was sad.
I remember when I was in my teens and everything on the radio was disco. At that time I wondered if music had sunk to it's lowest of lows. I felt that way a few years later when "hair bands" took over the market and I was not a big hair band fan. It took me a while to realize what the industry is all about and in retrospect, it hasn't changed much for the last 50 years or so.
I often wonder if I was about 18 when The Beatles first broke, if I would have looked at them as teeny-bopper music and written them off. Looking back, they were great at the time, but I look at them for their whole career and not from the offset of their "love song sap" that they broke with.