It wouldn't make a difference, Clear Channel and MTV would still have turned music into the bullshit it is today. Take a look at American Idol, that show pretty much sums up everything. Any jackass off the street can become the next MTV superstar.
There are still other great musicians out there... Pearl Jam, Beck, Tragically Hip, etc, etc, etc, but they've been pushed out of the corporate "mainstream" by the CEOs who only push shitty music with messages about money being everything, violence, zero sum gains, and other generally mind numbing horseshit. Kurt Cobain was probably the best musician since Lennon, but even he couldn't beat the corporations.
