to not want bloody music everywhere I go

[MarklahMarklah]

I'm not talking a fanfare that precedes me or anything, but the fact that any shop or public space (apart from parks) I go into have to have music on. All. The. Bloody. Time.
Even the local charity shops now "have to have music" they tell me.
I don't want to listen to music. If I wanted to do that I'd stay home with my CD's or go to a gig. If I'm shopping I want to shop. I need to think about what I'm buying not have my ears blasted with some awful caterwauling.

I am wondering if I could start a campaign?

And don't get me started on Christmas music in shops.

YANBU. I particularly hate it when they play it at the swimming pool. I'm trying to have a relaxing swim and all I hear is blasted blasting music.

Especially annoying when they play it full blast and it wakes the baby up whom you've just walked for hours to sleep.

The music isn't there for your enjoyment; it's there to make you spend more! And it works on you whether you remember the music or not.
e.g. if the supermarket wants to shift its French/German/whatever wine, they play that type of music
Slow tempo'd music makes people spend more
Classical music in wine shops makes people buy more wine...
blog.motivemetrics.com/The-Psychology-of-Music-Why-Music-Plays-a-Big-Role-in-What-You-Buy

The pub i mentioned before which received the quiet pub award, had an increase in sales so there must be a call for it. It just simply changed from blasting music to very quiet music (still pop songs but instrumental)

I have ASD and find it really stressful. I work in a shop that plays music and I find listening to that, plus focusing on multiple customers really hard to deal with. My brain just freezes and I can't think!

Luckily our music isn't too loud and we're rarely busy enough for it to be an issue - but busy days or big sale days are really hard for me. I can't exactly wear earplugs to work so o just have to get on with it and take myself off for a tea break/toilet break when it gets too much.

I often spend my days off alone in blissful silence!

I hate music played at loud volume levels unless I have purchased tickets to see a performance. I constantly ask the young gym instructors at the gym I go to, to turn the music down and also to turn off the main music when they put music on for a class - as I really can't cope with 2 different lots of loud music playing at the same time - one speaker in each ear. I have given up wearing my Ipod at the gym as I would need to have it on so loud to block out the other music, I would damage my hearing.

I also don't think it is always appropriate to play Christmas music in every setting. Last year, my DD died in hospital. One of the memories which will never leave me is that of walking down the hospital corridor having kissed her goodbye for the last time to the sounds of 'I wish it could be Christmas every Day'' being blasted out from some charity stall set up in the corridor.

Heh, I remember my GP surgery's radio breaking - was stuck on a gaelic station. Couldn't understand a word of it and neither apparently could anyone else.

I am not a music fan. I do have the radio on in the car, but always a speech station, usually Radio 4 or Radio Scotland. Or a podcast. I do not listen to music for pleasure. It's just not my thing.

This is one of the good things about supermarkets at either end of the spectrum - Aldi and Lidl won't pay the performing rights licence fee to be able to play music, Waitrose sees itself as above that sort of thing. So combination of Waitrose, Aldi, online shopping and you can avoid most of it.

How selfish. I work in a shop and lile to listen to music to take my mind off rude customers. Are you the same person who constantly bitches at me that its too hot in the shop (when they walk in with a parker on and i have to wear a store tshirt all day?

I don't mind music in the background but I hate the new trend to have music blaring in clothes shops and shopping centres. If you've ever been to trinity in Leeds then you'll know what I mean. Trinity kitchen has the music on too loud! I'm youngish so I don't think it's an age thing, it is just genuinely too loud.

I do understand why the GPs surgery has a radio on, ours does for exactly the same reasons of confidentiality.

In shops it's pointless - what purpose does it serve? I'm sure that my loathing of Christmas excess has its roots in Christmas 1994 when I was a temp at Debenhams and heard the same 6 or 7 songs on a loop from mid-November. No we're not "Simply having a wonderful Christmas time" Sir Paul, we're wishing we could fecking strangle you.

I hate it.
People are afraid of silence.
If they want noise there are plenty of gadgets to wear in their ears and listen.

It doesn't encourage me to spend more - I grab what I need and escape as fast as possible.

I'm not autistic as far as I know but I can well understand the stress caused by sensory overload.

bigbluebus so sorry about your daughter

I think that Xmas must c and adverts etc. are very inconsiderate towards grinches and people like me who have nothing to look forward to at Xmas.

The ONLY place that I would be happy to have music played is in a public toilet. Why are they always quiet? So that you can hear what is happening in the next stall, and they can hear you??

Can I add round hotel swimming pools?

Fucking infuriating when I just can't concentrate on my pulp fiction

I troed to post a lonk to youtube and Joyce Grenfell's bring back the silence but failed, so you'll just have to google it yourselves.

I tried to post a link!

I find it annoying too. Even one of the swimming pools near me plays music though at least I can't hear it much when I'm doing front crawl.

My mum often asks shops to turn it down. Another reason why I prefer online shopping.

We have a trampoline park that plays very loud music. Once a month they have an autism awareness evening which is billed as "no music". And yet they still had music on albeit at a lower volume.

YANBU. It's exhausting and oppressive. It's as if people can't cope now without a constant stream of noise pouring out from speakers everywhere. I also notice that it's getting commoner and commoner just to play music or videos on public transport without using headphones. Ten years ago that would have been considered utterly anti-social behaviour. I think people, especially younger people, increasingly see it as normal which I ascribe to having grown up so surrounded by electronic racket in public places everywhere that it doesn't occur to them that it could be rude to contribute even further to it.

If you play background noise constantly to lab rats they get so stressed out it affects their fertility and behaviour - they start fighting and they eat their young.

I like it. Music is a huge part of who I am and I like almost all of it; from pop to Rock to Country and everything in between. If a shop is silent it makes me uncomfortable and if it’s a small shop, I leave.

I do agree though that some places play it far too loudly and you can’t hear the person sat right next to you! But I would hate to see everywhere go silent.

YANBU, but this is not my experience of life (yet, touch wood...!) so perhaps you should move to a little market town surrounded by countryside. The shops are quiet here!

I troed to post a lonk

This small lapse into Allo Allo French has delighted me!

Yes MarthaArthur pesky customers coming in trying to buy stuff eh?