I play music through my TV, often by finding a recorded musical performance on an app like YouTube. Does that count as “having TV on in the background?”
Point. I guess the more 1:1 analogy would be having the radio on in the background. muses
The closest I can come to explaining where my distaste seems to come from is wasted opportunity.
In the modern era, we have unrivaled access to the thing (e.g. the musical piece, specific performance, news report, piece of information, best show or movie of all time) itself. And yet we're so in need of filler that we're willing to put any damn thing on?
That seems close to it, as I don't have nearly the adverse gut reaction to music as I do to television. Or even to television-sans-ads to television-with-ads.
