Klarinet Archive - Posting 000373.txt from 2001/05

From: LanaClarinet@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] ...more about sensitivity & decibels
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:15:12 -0400

In a message dated 5/13/01 4:16:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
CassildaYhtill@-----.com writes:

> They turn on a loud rock or rap music CD, a different loud music CD
> from a different set of speakers, a widescreen with a violent movie with
> guns
> and car brake screeches, then constant loud store advertisements on top of
> all that, an amplified radio station too, and then as if that isn't
enough
> they turn on a whole lot of the regular size TV and radio sets to
different
> stations, enough to drive you crazy with a constant mutter of gobble
gobble
> gobble gobble underneath all the slam bang noise. Add really bright
lights
> with some of them flashing and it is like a torture chamber in there.
>
> I complain and they don't do anything. They look at me like I am a nut.
So
> forget them, they can sell to some chump who already went deaf from
getting
> hammered and passing out with his head against the woofers at a rock
concert.
>
> I think the employees must all have gone deaf by now and they can't tell
how
> bad it is. They are mostly dazed looking kids. You ask where something is
> and they give you this kind of empty look with the mouth dragging open,
like
> "Huh? You bothering me for what?"

Oh, come on. Are you telling me you weren't the same when you were young?
I'm 40 and I very clearly remember blasting my 8-tracks of Ted Nugent, Billy
Joel, and ABBA when I made the 45-minute drive to my job at Carson Pirie
Scott & Co. every day. Yeah, ABBA made me go deaf. Right. And the music
at Carson's was more or less canned Paul McCartney; it never sounded like
"gobble gobble gobble" to me.

Point is, if you don't like louder music, then simply bypass that store.
Obviously the majority of customers must enjoy the music or the store
wouldn't risk alienating the majority of their customers by playing it!!!!
You have every right to walk right past that store if you don't like the fact
that they're playing ABBA at top volume (gee, your poodle might go deaf).

Lana

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