Day 338: Music

Popular music in all its form is a massive industry.  Hundreds of millions of people listen to it, collect it and worship the artists.  You would think that all these people listening to music, humming the songs and remembering the lyrics would be classified as music lovers but that is far from the truth. There are 2 phenomenons that I cannot comprehend:

1. When on the piste there are people who ski with a boombox in their backpack.  Aside from the fact that the sound is rarely very good, as soon as you are in a skilift queue you have competing sounds which transform any potentially good music into a cacophony of sounds (also it is socially obnoxious to impose your music on others).
2. The second (and possibly worse) phenomenon is people who listen to music straight from their computer or telephone speakers.  How can anyone pretend they are a music lover and then listen to tinny electronic sound from an under-powered speaker.  It would be like going to a three star Michelin restaurant and being served in plastic cutlery and paper plates.  Or going to a beautiful sandy beach and not caring about the litter.  

If something is worth doing it should be done well.