Catalog Albums Outsell New Records Online for the First Time

[SisterNightroad]

they poke their nose in and decide they know what people want in new product (and don't)

That's certainly true but market laws have always been the same, always working this way.
I think it's a combination of a new culture of fast-music that quickly lose interest in music products and prefers hit singles instead of the over the quality of a whole album and the musical industry that takes advantage of it in a mutual circle.