PFR: "What I relish about this kind of thread,
is just how much members of a supposed music lovers forum
are actually so grumpily hostile to music..."

There is music and there is music (and there is what some of us may think doesn't qualify for the name at all). A few of us may like all kinds, but most of us have some kinds that we like and resent having other kinds inflicted on us. Some of us object on principle to having any kind of music inflicted on us, even if it's a kind that we choose to listen to when it suits us. And anyway the kinds that Mudcatters tend to like are seldom the kinds played in shops etc.