Silence is golden, and is a lot rarer than gold.
I can't stand the piped-in music interfering with what I have in my head. On the other hand, every now and then I like the song. I once found myself singing along and noticed another woman not too far away doing the same thing. (I think it was "Lean On Me.") If she'd been as crazy as I, we could have had a duet. This is rare though, most times it just drives me nuts. You have to wonder what happened to make a society so uncomfortable with silence.