Gawd I love this young woman - wysiwyg to the Nth degree ! 

<i>How did the world get so turned upside down that the garbage is what makes money? </i>
Maybe the same way most things have devolved. Seems as a general rule everything,  from advertising to important things like public education and the news media,  is geared to appeal to the lowest common denominator.  Why would music fare any better ? 
Hope you're right K.C.,  would be nice to think there is a corporate conscience involved,  but am a bit cynical today and tend to think it is more a sop for appeasing critics of the music machine. 
Taking my cheerful self back to my cave now ;]