Taking an other point of view... you could also think of it as the natural law of supply and demand. EVERY business operates under that law. Also music. Currently the market is overfed. There is so much "todays fashion" crap without substance that I think deserves to die. It happens in all industry... cell phones, cars, magazines, furniture... some business is always in crisis, people lose jobs, the strong and clever remain. The more fashion in the business, the shorter the life time seems to be. Music has converted more and more into a world of consumer fashion. New trend, momentary joy, no substance, throw away, forgotten after use. Too much mass production --> cheap stuff --> no value for user --> hard competition --> some production is bound to die. Supply and demand in effect.
Usually some status quo is then reached again.
So, looking on the bright side of it... when the thing collapses, maybe we will get some better quality again. If the wannabe untalented fashion crap only held up by industrial forces dies and the stuff with real talent survives, we might have again more music with substance.
If the bulk mainstream hypocrite industrially massproduced crap cannot survive its own business model in todays society and todays consumer habits, then it's a paradox anyway. No place for it. Die and rot. Never had a chance to start with.
Someone posted in another thread on GS that he/she doesn't buy music anymore and doesn't listen to radio. For me it kinda the same. Threw my TV out in late 90's, and can't listen to radio anymore. But when I happen hear substance (for me) I pay for it. The music I buy is usually stuff that is too "fringe" for the local stores so I mostly have to order it. E.g. found Inga Liljeström on youtube, ordered her stuff via the local small record shop, waited almost 2 months for the two CD's. But it was worth it. And I also go to concerts sometimes.
I will keep supporting the stuff I recognize as true art. It's maybe a small circle with small revenues, barely surviving. But if it survives, it's enough for me. Even if the main industry dies now, true music will live on. It has never died, world wars and plagues, no matter what.
Sorry about the epic tone on that. Wasn't on purpose.
Cheers, I'll put some good music on
