alexanderthenine wrote...
I know what you mean lol. But from the artists' point of view, can you imagine how insulting that would be? Also, blaring ANY kind of music would bother me after a while. Auditory torture sounds like an inhumane thing to me. :(
What do you want to do? Ask them nicely and give them cookies in exchange for selling out their comrades?
ShaggyJebus wrote...
I'm offended by this, being a minor fan of Nine Inch Nails.
What kind of message are they trying to send when they play a group's song for torture? "This band sucks, so we'll going to make these prisoners listen to them!" Fuck that.
I'll point to a similar incident in panama
http://www.psywarrior.com/PanamaHerb.html
So because the prisoners hate the music, we shouldn't use it? You're right, just because they want to kill us doesn't mean we can't be nice to them. How about some soothing Mozart (The Magic Flute) or maybe some other opera? I suggest Habanera from Carmen. I could stand listening to La Dona e mobile for hours at a time. I rather like Opera especially when Luciano Pavarotti sings it.
It's not an insult to the musician. Anybody will get tired of listening to music they don't like after a few hours. I'm sure if I forced some of you to sit down and listen to opera for hours on end in uncomfortable settings. You'd break eventually.
Edit: Shaggy, they don't play it "because it sucks" they play it because that kind of music sounds like noise to them. Remember their laws prohibits listening to music. They'd go insane listening to Hannah Montana but, I'm sure even the guards were begin to crack. If I was a guard at that prison I would rather than blast NIN than Travis Tritt or something.