I Hate Mopey Pop Music in Stores

So I'm in Walgreen's today buying some items. Nothing big. Shampoo, toothpaste. That sort of thing. Not the kind of endeavor that typically elicits any kind of emotional response. But over the PA system came a caterwauling of such intense pathos that I almost started crying. It might have been Sarah McLachlan, I'm not sure, but it was completely inappropriate for the setting.Will somebody please tell me why people play sad music in public? I don't want to think about lost love while I'm buying toothpaste. I don't want any emotional attachment to the establishment that sells me toothpaste. It doesn't seem necessary. I want to get my toothpaste and go home. If I need to explore sad feelings, I'll put on Mahler and sink slowly into a funk. But, you know, alone. In private.Sometimes I wonder if the people who make these decisions are so completely devoid of feeling that, to them, it sounds like pleasant background music. It's not. It's horrible.That is all.