Music and iPod

Okay, so I have been doing this senoir integration paper on iPod. I have to find a way to integrate this with my Christian worldview. I have been doing a ton of research that has led me across some other discoveries that made me rethink a lot of things in general about techonolgy. Technology can be used for good or for bad. However, the natural tendancy of humans is to use it against our own good. Like Apple's iPod. It is a very convinient and can store thousands of songs easily accessed. But what kind of songs do you put on there? Using iTunes, you rate all of your current songs according to preference and upload them to your iPod giving preference to your favorites. So what do you get? A iPod full of chart toppers. Music that is made to be popular so that you will choose to download it and place it on your iPod. The mere fact that it is so convenient to access the songs you have a current fettish for is iPod's downfall. You do not have to listen to an occasional random but excellant song. Every song is downloaded to your computer, placed on your iPod and chosen by the user. This process excludes several excellant songs that would allow for you to branch out and appriciate a broader spectrum of music. This broader spectrum has been traditionally found on CD albums that you have bought or by radio stations that choose to play a variety of music. However, CD sales are drastically falling with the digital revolution of music and radio stations are even trending towards playing only hits. I currently am listing to Internet radio on winamp and the first 15 radio stations are mostly hit-exclusive radio stations of various genres. The ones that are not generally tend to stick very closely to the hit-stlye genre.
The problem with all these hits is the fact that creative ingenuity is stiffled. The music is all the same. After listening to hundreds of songs that sound exactly the same our minds become numb to what creativity is and complacent with dependance upon popular style music.
So the solution? A start is creative radio stations. One internet radio station that has a fair mix of some hit-style songs and other good songs that I have found is Sky.fm. There music is generally refreshing and crosses several genres without concern for focusing on any specific hit-style of music. Also, acquiring random music from the rest of an artist is useful so that you can experience more that the arist has to offer. Also, several artists intended their music to be appriciated weaved together so that their "pop" songs have context that helps impact them. This adds value to the songs that can not be found in hit-style song listening. Just some random thoughts, prolly too much research, not enough sleep.