"Dude, music sucks now!" Cue eyeroll. Not only is there more amazing
music in heaven and earth, Horatio, than is dreamt of in your
philosophy... exactly which "then" are you holding "now" up to? The
common rants that the pop hits of today don't live up to the legendary
music of (insert decade here) aren't just cliche, but completely
invalid: the pop hits of yesteryear are just as bad as today's, and
today's great music-- the stuff that isn't on the radio-- is as good as
(or better than) what the Baby Boomers claim is the be-all end-all of
music.