The day the Muzak died.

Muzak has gone bankrupt http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7886024.stm

Now if this had happened a year ago Polybore would probably have been full of glee that the purveyors of soulless music had gone under. In the current economic circumstances, however,  glee at people losing their jobs is not appropriate.

Is this the end of inoffensive back ground music? Probably not, no doubt, the denizens of music hell are readying themselves to step into the vacuum.