music

Believe me, I know where to find music, it's just that none of it is as vital, energetic or as good as it should be.

I disagree. Sure, the internet might have given more people the ability to publish their music, but it has also cheapened the act of listening music to such a degree that any benefit that might have brought on has been completely eroded. "Back in the days" when people bought music, they actually were forced to engage with it, nowadays anything that might challenge listening conventions gets immediately skipped in favor of something else that more easily fits listening conventions. Streaming services obviously change listening behaviour and changed listening behaviour changes the music itself (as studies have proven). As more and more of human experience is viewed through the logic of the market, art is obviously going to suffer.

thank you for really making my point. Blues, Jazz, Rock and Gospel came to be because thousands of years of musical traditions were ripped from their places of origin, left to its own devices in a climate in which making music was a just another part of life, where the process of making music and listening music were one and the same. And that musical culture was then confronted by the advent of sound recording, which canonized those musicians who were "lucky" enough to be recorded. That it was able to keep its vitality despite being "trapped in amber" is a testament to its sheer power, but also to the fact that the fledgeling music industry hadn't yet become the cultural industry of today.

Misery doesn't automatically lead to great art, the conditions under which it can lead to great art are instead very fickle and capitalism has tried its hardest to not allow them to be.