If sound quality wasn't butchered in the recording studio by mastering the album to be loud and in your face instead of having dynamic range, maybe more people would be purchasing more music. At least they would enjoy it more. If we want music to be loud, there's this think called a "volume dial". It's too bad that most of us who may not listen exclusively to Jazz and Classical may never get to hear a good sounding, dynamic recording. Instead of hearing certain parts of a song going from low to loud we get clipped, distorted audio from start to finish which can be tiring on the ears. Nobody but the record label execs cares about who is louder than the next guy...customers just want good sounding music and most don't know any better, they will just keep consuming what is given to them thinking it meets some sort of rigorous quality standard. We are your customers and we demand you end the "Loudness War".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war