If somebody paid some money to produce recordings (incl. poor recordings) which is not cheap, somebody likes it's performance or sound.
What is more important? The music or the sound. The performance of artists matters the most in reproduced music. If our audio reproduces the original sound/music, we still like many poorly recorded great performance music.
The problem is that our audio sounds very different from the original music. It is un-natural sound with lots of noise (glare, distortion) even if a'philes don't hear it. To regular ears (me, women, non-a'philes), even all world greatest $million systems (and every other systems) sound un-natural (bright glare, veil, harsh noise) which are un-listenable.
So, blame your bad sound audio systems. Not the recordings. Alex/WTA