Well, that doesn't have to happen anymore. You can just get the crap for free, and most music is crap. Our hope is that the music industry loses money, and with it, the incentive to brainwash you. Perhaps they will learn to appeal to the audience differently by making you actually like a band enough to shell out the cash for their music. That is simply highway robbery.
Record companies have only a few bands that they push, and all the bands sound the same.
A new band with interesting music has absolutely no chance of getting a record contract. That is because it is easier for the music companies to sell the same style of music over and over. Because they have a choke hold on what is played you get absolutely no choice except for those few dull, same-sounding performers they allow you to hear. The people making the choice for you are jerks who spend most of their day laughing about what suckers you are. The music industry needs to being completely shaken up.