"....Listening to pop music while stuck in prison wouldn't be all that bad...."
I disagree. Being forced to listen to Whitney Houston or Celine Dion would be among the most ghastly and intolerable tortures I could imagine.
Tell me about it. I put a name to it: The "MTV music holocaust". It`s a holocaust started by MTV in 1981 that has been systematically destroying the quality of music for the past 24 years like a cancer, and it seems to be getting worse and worse every year.
As an example, remember the outrage over Milli Vanilli some years back when it was found that they lip synched? Milli Vanilli were completely humiliated, destroyed to the point where one member even committed suicide. Look at the situation now; We have this girl Ashlee Simpson who was caught lip synching on national TV on Saturday night live. Then to top it off she was booed at the Orange bowl after showing she couldn`t sing one note. Yet she is still promoted like crazy as a serious musician, still has a career and even has a TV show.
The horrors of the MTV holocaust such as Whitney, Celine, Madonna etc etc that ain`t nothing my friend. Wait till you see how bad it gets a few years from now. You`ll be turning on the radio and Yoko Ono will be playing on every station.
Congress keeps saying they are going to do something about the holocaust, put an end to this payola crap and keep the industry on an equal market basis, but every time it`s brought up, it`s immediately shot down and forgotten. Probably because of $$$$.