selling records for the majors has become a lot like like selling fish sticks as you were saying or ice cream..
very supermarket-like.. pumped with sugar, salt and flavour enhancers.
in the end the kinds of foods that work best with the above substances HAVE to be relatively poor in substance and flavour to taste right..
It's also easier and profitable for corporations with a lot of money at their disposition to enter and take over a market with ice cream and fish sticks than it is to take over a market for 'gourmet' food.