Come on, OP... Why are you being obtuse?

>In that you're complaining about an option that wasn't around
>15 years ago while the old model is still alive and kicking.
>If your disinterest was as simple as volume you would just
>keep using the old system and ignore the fringe stuff. What I
>really hear you saying is this new way has put stuff into the
>market place you might be interested in but you don't have the
>desire to sift though it all... but that's still different
>than saying the new way has made you less interested in new
>music. Without that delivery system it wouldn't even be out
>there and you'd have no choice but to follow the old model...
>or just lose interest. To me it sounds like with or without
>the new way you'd be just as disinterested as you are now.
>
>*shrugs*
>
>Not really a big issue but just wanted to make sure I wasn't
>missing something.

Okay... maybe the thing you are missing is the context of this whole discussion which I'd assume would have been implicitly evident to anybody who has been following the music scene over the past decade or so: ie the (surviving) instruments of the "old model" SUCK.

I'm not gonna listen to the radio. I was not listening to the radio 7 years ago so I'm not gonna start now when the situation over there are much, much more dire.

Video channels play the same 10 payola artists over and over. There's nothing for me there.

None of this is new, of course... so what instruments did I use in the past?

1. Record stores, particularly independent ones. Most of them are closed down.
2. Hip magazines. They are also gone.

There are others too, but there's no need to list them... they're dead as well.

So really, your assertion that the "old model" still exists unscathed is actually not true at all. Unless you are assuming that the model is wholly encompassed by radio, which I had little interest in even before filesharing blew up.