Public is easily sold on "near" quality

This time it's "near-DVD quality" Mr Jobs has blessed us with. Apple these days is so far from making elitist-bound perfection-driven products. Interesting, how convenience overweighed quality. First, it's discrete digital sound of CDs. Next, it's lossy copy of those same tracks. Can we take even crappier sound for our daily consumption?! A-ah, here's the cue: "daily consumption". Before, listening to music on one's stereo was an exciting experience. Something one would not do all day long. Now it's all pre-chewed bubble gum. Worse, it's got something stuck in it... what is it? Oh, it's DRM. Well, your humble servant is not going to step onto this rake again: as a HDD in my notebook crashed, gone are all iTunes songs I bought, as I did not bother to figure out a way to pull these files from underneath the software. It's appaling that for the price of these inferior tracks I can not re-download them in case of loss.