Alice Cooper did quite alright even after buying in to commercialism. Just try to listen to his "Hey Stoopid" album.

I like pretty much all good music, but especially like "original" and am a bit of a Technojunkie. That music sure isn't commercialized and since it's very rare to find whole CD's that are any good with technomusic I am very wary before buying any of it.

I bought every CD of artists like Sheryl Crow and Prodigy (I know, there quite a difference in what music they play, thus good for proving my point) and their latest albums have really gone downhill, not really because they bought into the whole media thing, but because they try to follow or stay ahead of the times. OK Prodigy's "Action Radar" is probably the best song they ever made, "Girls" is up there as well, also Crows "Letter to God", but still the rest of the CD sucks.

I remember a time when you could put either one of these artists CD's on and just let it play from track 1 to the end. Well not anymore. I think release dates have become much more important than actually putting the finishing touches and an album. And that's a shame.