<p>I feel like my roommate doesn’t appreciate it when I like to blast my music in the room and he happens to be in there at the same time.</p>
<p>I take note of when he is and isn’t studying and when he’s not studying, I want to listen to my music outside of the confines of ****ty headphones. Do you see a problem with this? Would you have a problem with me as a roommate?</p>
<p>Music means a lot to me and blasting it contributes to an excellent studying and concentration-friendly atmosphere.</p>
<p>Yeah that would **** the crap out of me. For one, your roommate probably doesn’t like your music. And its really annoying to a lot of people to have music when they study, including me. It’s distracting, especially when it’s very loud. If you know he doesn’t like it and continue to do it anyways you will probably be the subject of one of those “*<strong><em>ty roommate” threads in the near future. You also could just invest in some not *</em></strong>ty headphones.</p>
<p>Some people can’t comprehend that music tastes are subjective. I like the Doors, Blue Oyster cult, the Beatles, Fleetwood mac, the Cars, Tom Petty, Blondie, the Hollies… pretty much everything 1966-1984…</p>
<p>But I would never appreciate anything “blasted.”</p>
<p>I blast Red Hot Chili Peppers in my dorm all the time. My roommate and I like the same music so it’s pretty chill. Unless one of us is sleeping we usually just blast it.</p>
<p>No dude, it’s pretty damn annoying. My roommate does the same thing and honestly, one can ony listen to so much B.O.B and wiz kalifah before flipping a ****. Not only does it bother your roommate, but what’s even more annoying is the sound of the bass that the people under/near you have to put up with.</p>
<p>It’s just rude. You’re pretty much telling your roommate, “I don’t care about what you like or how you want the dynamics in our room to be, I’m just going to do whatever the **** I want.”</p>
<p>Ever heard of a little thing called common courtesy? You might wanna try it out.</p>
<p>I can understand playing music out loud if you’re cleaning or doing something hands-on, but while you’re not, headphones (better if they’re noise-cancelling) are your best bet. Not everyone has the same musical taste, and anything beyond a reasonable volume would annoy anyone. Use the golden rule: treat others as you want to be treated. If you were doing homework or something and suddenly your roommate starts playing his music out loud, would you really appreciate it?<br>
Just sit down with your roommate and work out a compromise. Believe me, it’s better to draw some lines here and there so you’re not always in fights.</p>
<p>It’s funny you say this, because my roommate has said on numerous occasions…“oh, I love this song…I have to check out your iTunes media folder some time…”</p>
<p>I don’t think my musical taste is in conflict with his. </p>
<p>And lol @ all the assumptions of people who CLEARLY failed to read my post. I don’t blast my music as he’s studying. Read my post again.</p>
<p>Um, yeah, screw you. I hope to god you’re ■■■■■■■■ hard. “I don’t blast my music as he’s studying.”</p>
<p>What’s wrong with you, you big dolt? You realize when he’s not studying, it’s STILL HIS ROOM HE ALSO PAID FOR. You weren’t made to be around people.</p>
<p>Well, if you’re getting along with your roommate and he has no problem with you doing this, then go ahead and quit ■■■■■■■■. I, personally, could NEVER put up with that, though.</p>
<p>geez people are getting defensive. I like to play my music loud as well (only at reasonable hours). I have no roommates this year but I usually leave my door cracked open so you can hear definitely it in the hallways, haha. I’m sorry, I’m not as anal-retentive as so many people are about noise…I feel like music livens up a relatively dreary dorm space and makes it known that you are there and willing to be social with others on your floor. If people have a problem with my music they can ask me politely to turn it down like a sane person instead of being passive-agressively mad about it, or have their music on loud as well.</p>
<p>I don’t see a problem with playing music loudly as long as he likes it and agrees that you can play it. However, if he asks you to turn it down, do it. And don’t let him do that passive-aggressive crap like SIGHING LOUDLY like a woman or something.</p>
<p>Of course, I personally don’t have this issue. Since we live with the RA, he didn’t even allow us to play music at an above average sound at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Friday, and doesn’t even allow us to watch TV a little bit loudly. My only problem was last night when me and my suitemate were up working on HW at 1:30 and he was playing some *<strong><em>ty slipknot or some *</em></strong> rock music loudly in our room. </p>
<p>Bottom line: Ask him if it’s ok if you notice him getting upset but not saying anything.</p>
<p>My neighbor last quarter blasted the most annoying gangster rap almost every time he was in his room. No matter how many times I tried to talk to him or report him for excessive noise the situation never really got any better. It kept me awake and made me extremely irritated even when I wasn’t sleeping.</p>
<p>I transferred out of that room this quarter thank god.</p>