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Some 90s-mid 00s top 40 song is playing over the sound system.

This customer comes in and goes to the lottery machine. My boss and another coworker were talking music, when customer says

"Last time I cam in here somebody was playing death metal and I couldn't stand it! I had to leave; I would have bought more. I like this better"

<Sk8ter boi by avril lavigne comes on>

"but... you can take things too far in the other direction.

However, I'm standing there racking my brain about who would have put on death metal. Now, I'm actually referencing what I know about the actual genre of death metal and not the all encompassing term people use to call things "death metal"

It might not have been me, but I feel like it had to be. So, i'm thinking, and the heaviest thing I can recall playing in store is "Flood" by Boris which isn't death metal and outside of a few parts, isn't all that hard.

But then later on it hit me...I may have discovered the customers source of frustration:

Dopesmoker by Sleep. That HAS to be it. Now, in store we can play whatever we want as long as it isn't too aggressive or obscene/swear words/whatever.

Dopesmoker gets some airplay in the store because of a few reasons:

• It is one track at around 65 minutes, so I can put it on and forget about it.
• Long droning riffs? people are a fan of this, for sure. It doesn't sound aggressive to me even if it is super heavy.
• no swear words. And while this song is one long weed smokers anthem ("Drop out of life with bong in hand" "proceeds the weedian - nazareth") I figure nobody can actually understand what is being said or would put two and two together.

That's it. I think I uncovered this mystery. My issue with this customer is, if you don't like the music, ask us to turn it off. I find it weird you come in at a later date and mention it. Nothing is likely to change though.

Some days you just want to unleash a 60 minute weedian epic of music proportions on the unsuspecting public.