Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening - Idolator Comments

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

MrStarhead — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:43:08 EDT

They already do this on both the subway and buses in Atlanta. And it sucks.

MrStarhead

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

nineyearwake — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:44:47 EDT

It's perhaps the worst way to commute home from your already unfulfilling job at 6PM. It's loud enough to hear over the weak Apple earbuds (now I have a real reason to upgrade!). It was in fact mainly ads and talk, and I have a hard time believing that this improves their post 9/11 alert/announcement system at all, seeing as most of us were just trying to ignore the chatter the way we generally avoid eye contact.

Sigh, Boston. Nevertheless, yay Sox. Or something.

nineyearwake

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

Bob Loblaw — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:04:31 EDT

Dear MBTA,

You know what would be an awesome, easy-listening format? All sports call-in shows, all the time. Boston fans are both rational and well-spoken.

Sincerely,
Lucifer

PS BECKETT PWNS SABATHIA! EFF YOU JD DREW!

Bob Loblaw

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

HuckNPluck — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:52:45 EDT

Meh, granted I have no particular love for a 6:30am "Life in the Fast Lane" but maybe it will drown out that godawful accent. Choose your poison: "Screw Gay-Rod, go sawx!" or "Living on a Prayer."

In other news Bose noise-canceling headphones sales up 40% in New England...

HuckNPluck

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

tape — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:42:31 EDT

@dickdogfood: actually, T-Radio is already about 70% ads.

A pretty extensive "feedback"-writing campaign has already begun (not that it'll do much good, since the MBTA already willfully ignores anything its ridership cares about).

tape

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

BawstonSean — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:28:00 EDT

The combination of hobo-piss and "Hotel California" is the perfect way to get your day off to a shit start. As if the citizens of Boston weren't a bunch of cranky SOBs to begin with...

BawstonSean

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

Dickdogfood — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:33:18 EDT

I think the odds are good that within three years, they'll just replace all of the music with revenue-producing ads.

Dickdogfood

Boston Transit System Experiments With Forced Music Listening

jgoldner — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:09:23 EDT

That's wicked retahded.

jgoldner