- Earlier this year, infuriated Starbucks employees took to Reddit to rage about how they had to listen to the same songs from the Broadway hit musical Hamilton endlessly repeated at work. One employee, Emily, wrote that if she heard a Hamilton song one more time, ‘I’m getting a ladder and ripping out all of our speakers from the ceiling.’ Pipedown has long argued that the people who suffer most from piped music in shops, restaurants, cafés etc are those who work there, and that such people’s rights are being trampled on. (See the case of Douglas Perry at the Hull Post office among others). Starbucks has yet to respond meaningfully to this outburst from their long-suffering employees but the writer Adam Johnson compared the piped music to the acoustic torture inflicted on prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.
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The campaign for freedom from piped music
