Reading the article while streaming a great album I wouldn't ever have heard about otherwise from Bandcamp somehow takes the drive out of it.
So 99% of today's music is crap, he says? Well, so was 99% of the music I grew up with in the eighties. The difference is, back then it was crap produced for mainstream attention, carefully chosen by the gatekeepers for being not too offensive. You could live in your indie rock bubble where only 90% was crap as that record dealer did, apparently, but that was as good as it got. Now? If stuff is crap, it is so on its own terms. Much better.