How can people make that determination if they've never even heard them anyway?
Huh? That's why P2P is there in the first place.
Yes, but how do you know to download it if you've never heard of them? Are you suggesting I should download every song on P2P to find the ones I like? I agree that P2P has put a lot more power into the hands of people, but it still leaves a lot of chaff to shift through. That used to be the job of DJ's. They'd listen to all the new music and play the stuff they liked. People would tune into DJ's they shared the same personal tastes with. Now the DJ's have no control over what they play. They're handed a playlist and that's it. Some marketing suit is deciding what we should like.
Stop yapping elitist claptrap and pretending like you know more than someone else who doesn't like your music. This isn't some moral mission to establish cultural hierarchies of "good" and "bad" music. It's a (fairly) simple mission to get the music out there in the first place.
I didn't relize it was elitist to say I don't like the music on the radio, here is some music that I think is better and should be on the radio. It would be elitist to somehow think I was superior for liking certain music, and I never said that.
