/////Well, you know, folks don't have a RESPONSIBILITY - as far as music is concerned - to do anything but listen to what they want to listen to////

I said you have a responsibility to branch out not that you can't listen to what you want to listen to. Why the hell would i tell anyone they can't listen to what they want to listen to. You can do that and should naturally branch out in the process.

////But, in the end, it's their business.////

It's your business too. Like it or not.

/////Why on earth should we, of an older generation, give a hot damn about what the current crop of teens like in the way of music?////

Why should we not care? Perhaps you never heard the old saying that are children are our future. Obviously, you don't care about it--you just said so.

////Let them get on with it and let's not be pejorative.////

Why not? Am I to pat every kid who listens to gangsta rap on the ass and say, "Good job, keep it up"? You think that stuff does not influence them?? Do you care it if influences them?

/////How they grow and when they grow doesn't concern us.////

Correction: It obviously doesn't concern you. It concerns me a great deal.