*sigh*
You might appreciate music, but you have no faith in artists if you assume you can do a better job producing their CD than they can. You have no right to assume that what an artist does or does not do is not a manifestation of their will as artists. Of course production is important; I find the production on Gore Fucking Corpses to be excellent; it's raw, it's dirty, it sounds wrong. Of course as an audio engineer in training you'll find it terrible; you are trained that way, I assume. You are, by trade, supposed to make things sound pretty and pristine and leveled correctly. Some of the best metal, and art in general, has said "fuck you" to technical standards and done whatever it wanted to, and, in doing so, revolutionized everything. If you disagree with this, you're probably just better off with pop music rather than metal.
Just admit that you might understand the technical aspects of art, but you clearly are missing the point of the artists' will, by far the most powerful tool in the world of aesthetics. I'm not doubting, at ALL, that you could get the master for Gore Fucking Corpses and Pro-Tools it up and make it sound snazzy, and I have no doubt you'd do it for free. But, by saying you could do it better than the artist can is pathetic at best, deplorable at worst. That kind of attitude is a cancer that negates artistic value and sorts everything according to preconceived standards.