From Lullaby by Palahniuk:
"People who would never throw litter from their car will drive past you with their radio blaring. People who’d never blow cigar smoke at you in a crowded restaurant will bellow into their cell phone. They’ll shout at each other across the space of a dinner plate.
These people who would never spray herbicides or insecticides will fog the neighborhood with their stereo playing Scottish bagpipe music. Chinese opera. Country and western.
Outdoors, a bird singing is fine. Patsy Cline is not.
Outdoors, the din of traffic is bad enough. Adding Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E Minor is not making the situation any better.
You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don’t win with a lot of treble.
This isn’t about quality. It’s about volume.
This isn’t about music. This is about winning.
You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword.
You dominate.
This is really about power."
That was a cool book, been a long time
Same reason why you would fire a gun in confined space. It makes deaf fasters, so you don’t have to listen to the shit music you are forced to listen due to peer pressure.
So I don’t hear the increasingly worrying noises my car makes.
Almost didn’t hear my tire pop 30 min ago because of music. Should have turned it louder instead of stopping because now I have to deal with it
This guy lemmy’in while driving what a champ
How do you have two extra spare tyres to use?
I see we think alike. If you don’t notice a problem, there isn’t one.
Found the Saab owner
The way I do it is to sound good in the car. If you can even hear it at all with the doors closed that’s by accident not design. I don’t go nuts with 4 dual coil 18s in a civic hatchback either though so I’m probably not the best one to answer. 🤷
Love my loud music while zipping down a highway at 100+. Zoom, zoom.
They have speakers that point outside the window… Yeah make sense with that.
“hey look free speakers!”
Fun fact, loud bass sounds louder outside a car than inside. They’re literally trying to blow out their own ears but missing.
Same reason children cry, they want attention.
Almost every explanation given in this comment section boils down to “I’m a selfish prick who only cares about what I’m doing in that moment. Fuck the lot of ya”
I like to feel the vibrations and a car is the most efficient space to have that environment in.
Because the soul is quiet, and it hides the flounder.
Can’t pump up music at home, too many nosy neighbours
I like feeling my music as well as hearing it
It’s a cheap and easy thrill
