Okay, I'm not really sure where to start here...
You have 1000 dvds that are terrible quality? Is that a thing? Were CDs $7 when they came out in the 90s? I don't remember that at all... Most music is under $10 online now... And yeah, don't pay for terrible music, why would you? Producers deserve money, it's the labels and publishers that get way more, Producers are hardly the problem that's keeping the artists from being paid... CDs (or recorded music in general) has never been a method for bands to get paid. The going rate for most bands signing a major label deal is about $0.17 per disc (for the whole band, plus their manager, lawyers etc...)
Concerts actually pay the bands a lot, so awesome, go see those...