Musical trends are often fairly indicitive of the society that creates it. We live in a commercialised society, so it is understandable that the music is commercialised also. There are groups of people who react against that mainstream just as there are bands that do. If you are dissatisfied by the music you hear maybe it is because you are dissatisfied by the way in which every consumer good you are offered is ultimately lacking in substance and is as shallow as the lyrics to an N'Sync tune. Of course, when the alternative is some violent death metal band that loves to sing about violent treatment towards women, where do you go?
There seem to be a lot of people here that lament the loss of good music, well, do something about it! There are plenty of people here that are good musicians I am sure, stand up.