New music sucks you say?

Quite recently, I've been doing a little bit of research on how music was recorded back in the day, and how its evolved, and what I ended up noticing was it took SO much more skill back 30 or 40 years ago, and it was MUCH more expensive.  Back in the day, when you wanted to record something, you lugged all you stuff down to a studio, payed for the space, payed for an engineer, sometimes you would pay for an instrument or two.  What used to happen was you'd all plug into the soundboard, the drummer might be in a separate room, and the singer was definitely in a different room because they needed to get the clarity of all the instruments alone.  What the engineers would do is they would essentially place microphones all over the room! They'd put one near a guitar amp (for example) to catch the clarity and tone of the instrument, and then they'd place a mic a few feet or so away to get a natural reverberation or echo sound.  Pretty much to make the instrument sound real and like it was big and booming!, and everybody would play at the same time! The band would get going all-together, and if somebody messed up, they all stopped and started over!  Which aided the band, as it allowed them to enhance their tightness and their chemistry when performing live.  It also called for perfectionism which, speaking as a... Led Zeppelin fan for example, I'd be pretty pissed off if I'd bought their LP and they were making mistakes left right and centre.

Musicians and artists of today have it so much easier! and cheaper too!  They literally just need to have a laptop and they can mix and master anything that they desire to.  Musicians of today, in my personal opinion, have a very minimal amount of talent.  Back in the day, not only would the bands play their stuff, they'd sit down and mix it as well.  Artists today literally just show up, record their crap and (most of them) walk right out, leaving the engineer alone to work in their music.  Everything for them can be fixed if they make a mistake.  They don't care to be perfect because they know they can cover it up with auto tune and with other specialized effects to make the song sound "pretty".  That's why whenever they are in concerts, playing in front of thousands of fans who payed good money to get in to their show, they sound like absolute crap.  Because 99.9% of them nowadays think they can just cover everything up.  Everything is computerized.  Computerized reverb, echo, chorus effects, special effects etc...  

Music today involves nothing more than pressing a space bar and moving around a couple of effects to make things sound pretty.  I know this because as a musician, I experiment, and I tried writing a techno song.  All I needed was Garageband and I had everything I needed.  Once finished, I trashed the whole project, just for the simple face of, I didn't consider it to be music.  

So at the end of the day, music is just supposed to be appealing to the ear of the listener, and if you're judging it solely on that principle, then you're probably going to argue this whole posting and neglect a lot of what I just said about new music, but if you went out and did your research and knew behind the scenes and the production of new music and how easy it is compared to before, you'd agree with me when I say, new music sucks.   The final product may not, but the production of it does.