AIBU to think that this isn't the most appropriate music for a charity shop?

[TheDustbunny]

I didn't really expect to hear 'Blow my whistle bitch. Blow it like you mean it in an Oxfam shop today.

I'm no prude, far from it. I listen to music with profanity, dark and sexual themes at times but in private. AIBU to think that shops should take a little more care with the music that they choose?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how music works in charity shops? Do the volunteers choose it or management?

I guess we just heard Suzanne Vega singing about it and presumed she was meant to the the woman singing.

I think it is also because she sings about walking into doors etc, which is what women say when they have been beaten by their husbands/boyfriends etc.

It is a sad song whoever it is about.

Never heard the 'song' re bitches blowing whistles, but it sounds like gross, misogynistic shit and not something i'd be happy for my kids to listen to, so no yanbu

I once volunteered in a charity shop that played the same five or six 50s and 60s songs (I think because many of the customers were elderly) on a loop every single day. Drove me mental. I think I'd rather hear Blow My Whistle Bitch than have to listen to Mr. Bloody Postman for the fifty-millionth time.

Hahahahahah that's so funny, nothing like a bit of rap in a charity shop on a Thursday morning.

does anyone know how music works in charity shops? Do the volunteers choose it or management?

I'm a charity volunteer (and not a rap fan). We have a CD player under the counter and a selection of CDs. We usually go very much for the non-offensive, easy listening. Ed Sheeran, Adele, Dusty Springfield, lots of compilation albums type things. The older volunteers like the "hits of the 60s" type CDs, my current favourite is a Singer Songwriter CD which has people like Norah Jones, KT Tunstall, Passenger and Jack Johnson. Verging on the bland, but nobody can object to it.

In our store we just play CDs from the selection which is donated.