Why do people need monster speakers in their cars and deafening noise?

[undeterred]

Is it so they can annoy entire neighborhoods and ensure they don't hear anything outside their vehicles?

[SeattleGirl]

1. Because it's "cool".

Drives me batty.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. WHAT?!

:P

[LanternWaste]

Self-validation, most likely

Self-validation, most likely. "Look at me-- my music is loud enough to disrupt conversations a block away! In this way, you're giving me attention rather than the person you really want to talk to. That means I'm cool-- oh damn, I'm missing South Park (or whatever this year's pushing-the-envelope, flavor-of-the-month cartoon is)!"

Ed: for spelling

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Because they want to get those nifty cochlear implants when they're 50.

[u4ic]

8. 50?

I'm thinking more like 30. :o

[sweetheart]

4. The futility of power

The poor bastards have no political voice whatsoever,
no voice, no power, except to consume and be part of petroculture.
So then, embracing the thrall, to make one's vehicle shake the walls of
the establishment you have no power in, is a way of looking at it.

[undeterred]

5. wow

Well they piss me off. It doesn't even sound like music, just vibration and noise.

[sweetheart]

7. and you, power, are shaken...

..here in the halls of power, we hear about it.

Too bad the blast of the speaker squanders so much for so little.

[VespertineIconoclast]

19. Very well put.

I think a lot of people spend so much time looking at the face value of things and accepting what they perceive through their 5 senses without looking deeper into the why's of a situation. Whatever face or stereotype you use to represent these individuals with "monster speakers," I would say that they're more likely to not have a voice of power in society and "act out" in ways to garner some sort of attention from their peers and the world around them even if it's negative attention.

[sweetheart]

29. yes, that political voice

We're taught in our culture to squander our political voice. If it is part of a
corporate-media-approved way to express dissent, then it is pre-designed to sterlize political power.

And for an education, people pick up equally worthless symbols of political expression,
in their corporate jobroles, empowered enough to not question, and no more.

It is saddening to see people who really believe that a big woofer that shakes the walls,
can actually revel in shaking the walls of power instead of *really* shaking them.
The cheap plastic power replaces the real power conveniently; slavery is all.

Welcome to DU, VespertineIconoclast; we've not chatted, and its such a fine pleasure.

:toast:

[VespertineIconoclast]

32. Thanks for the welcome, sweetheart!

:hi: The pleasure was all mine. I love reading well thought out posts that don't just give the knee-jerk response to a given situation.:) The world is far more complex than the black and white....

[Elidor]

20. That's very nicely said

But many of them are far too stupid to think it through that far. Rebels without a clue.

Those damned bazooka bass tubes never fail to piss me off. It's like being assaulted within your own home by someone you'll never see. Even worse, I live just a block from one of the shops that installs the damned things, so the new customers are forever testing them out.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. Because it's cool.

The thing with bass is that it carries, so it's not especially louder on the inside than it is on the outside.

[BlueJazz]

9. So they can show everybody within 3 blocks their shitty taste in Music.

I can't think of one time these Fuckers have ever played a song or Rapcrap that didn't suck the big one....

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Muscle cars no longer exist

So boys need other ways to demonstrate the size of their penii.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I thought that was the purpose of rims.

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Rims actually have a purpose

When combined with ultra-low-profile tires, they handle better.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. What about spinners?

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Throwbacks to the old days

They're fake anyway. Real spinners were outlawed around '65.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Because they can't hear anymore

They've deafened themselves by listening to music at an obnoxious volume level.

[noshenanigans]

16. I'm not..

I'm not necessarily saying there's a connection, but the only guy I've known who was ever really into that stuff was, well, really really short. And kinda chunky.

[maveric]

17. Because they're ASSHOLES!

Simple as that. They just love to annoy.

[smirkymonkey]

18. Little tiny microscopic dicks??

:shrug:

[TheBaldyMan]

21. because they have tiny willies. n/t

[WCGreen]

22. Cause they can hear the music through their balls....

Really, the bass reaches down and tingles the testi....

[VeggieTart]

23. For the same reason people drive Hummers

Because they're obnoxious assholes who don't care about anyone except themselves. If I ever see someone go by in a Hummer blasting rap crap, I may reconsider my position on guns.

[ganeshji]

24. I don't know.

I always assumed it was to stimulate sluggish brains into functioning.

[MassLiberal]

25. aggression

I always feel like I'm being assaulted when I get near one of those cars.

[Kerrytravelers]

26. I was thinking about posting this very thing.

Some idiot pulled up next to me tonight with the music so loud, the water in my water bottle was vibrating and my inner ears were itching. It nearly gave me a headache.

I was in a car of a friend's sister once, and she had the stereo/bass/whatever turned up so loud listening to the insane Clown Posse. After five minutes, I had to get out. Another poor soul and I walked to our destination. The headache and the embarrassment in showing up in a car like that was simply too much for us.

[Floogeldy]

27. Why don't you just live your life and stop judging and getting eat up with others?

Who gives a flying fuck? If they are violating the law, then call the fucking police. Otherwise, get a life.

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[FredStembottom]

28. It's aural grafitti.

Think about it. It functions exactly like it's visual equivalent.

You deface everybody else's stuff with your secret group identity symbols.

It's just the audio version.

[Robeson]

30. Probably because they can't hear, because they've blown their eardrums...

...out on a earlier system they had in their cars.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

31. Compensation for lacking between the legs.

Or something like that.

:P

[radwriter0555]

33. It's the modern mating call.

Come on, you knew that.

[barb162]

34. I notice that teenage boys or young men happen to use these.

Never saw a 60 year old woman with monster speakers. I would say it has something to do with attracting attention, as in getting attention from young good-looking females.

[jakefrep]

35. It's a redneck hybrid....

....the bass from the woofers helps propel the car down the raod.

[leftofthedial]

36. Huh?

[VelmaD]

37. Because some of us like really really loud music...

but don't feel like it's polite to play it in our apartments where all the neighbors have to hear it. For what it's worth...I don't play loud music in my car with the windows rolled down...that's just rude.

[Generic Brad]

38. Perhaps they have monster ears

Have you ever thought of that?