Why must they do this to my music?!

I work in an old building downtown. It's an awesome place, very different from the normal high rises and towers that you see in most of the Seattle skyline. Because of this, it attracts a wide array of tenants--there are doctors, architects, and lawyers, on some of the other floors.

Our nearest neighbor in the building, however, is a training program for a hair salon. I think they've been there for maybe a year now, maybe longer. I walk past there several times a day, because the restroom for our floor is clear at the other side of the building. They're not in session every day, but when they are, they typically have loud pop music blaring from the space.

They seem to have this strange fondness for ... I want to call them mash-ups, but it's probably more accurately sampling. Like today, they're playing "Dreams" by The Cranberries, but someone was rapping over it. This is not the only time I've heard such atrocities. It's seriously at least once every time they have a class in there, and often more than that. And it's almost always songs that I know and like, too. Or at least the originals were songs I know and like.

I realize that most of the people in this training program are probably college-aged, which means that some of them have not heard the originals of the songs that are being massacred. Some of them may not have even been born when the originals were released (there's a lot of 80s music involved). But it still hurts my soul. A lot.

Augh!

So as I may have mentioned before, we're one of those households living in the stone age, with no TIVO, and no immediate plans to get one. It's not anything against TIVO, it's mainly that I went for about 5 years of having no or limited TV channels, and not watching much TV. Now that we do have TV channels, it's mostly background noise for me.

With the exception of Lost. That's the show I can't bear to miss. I freaked out last week because I thought it was going to be on when I was out of town. But no, it resumes this week. Unfortunately, it resumes this week an hour later than it used to come on--10 p.m. our time.

And now you see the TIVO dilemma. If I had one, I could just TIVO Lost and watch it tomorrow after work. And I'd be okay with that--I can avoid the spoiler sites for a day, I think. :) But with no TIVO, the only solution is to stay up late to watch it. (Yes, there is also the option of waiting a week and watching it when it airs at 9 p.m. the following week, but I can't avoid spoilers for that long. :) )

I suppose when it comes down to it, there are many worse annoyances in life, and I should be glad that this is my main gripe at the moment. But dangit, why are they making my favorite show HARDER for me to watch?!