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Big Lake 
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| How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:53 pm)
I always judge people on what type of music they like moreso than any other character trait. I used to be a dick a rag on everyone's taste in music if I deemed it bad but now as long as they have the capacity to like good music they are alright with me.
For example someone could be the nicest/coolest person in the world but if they like Blood on the Dance Floor or My Chemical Romance or some shite then they might as well be Hitler to me.
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L Boogie
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:59 pm to Big Lake)
Meh.
I work in East Austin with a bunch of hipsters...we don't have the same taste in music but they are all still great people.
My close friends, however, have pretty much the same taste as I and we go to shows together and stuff. That doesn't mean I don't like people with a different taste in music. I just wouldn't invite them to be my +1. 
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 10:59 pm to Big Lake)
I generally like someone less if they have the same taste in music as me.
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:27 pm to Big Lake)
I appreciate all genres of music. It's the people who only listen to one genre and never move out of that zone that I find odd.
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yurintroubl 
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:30 pm to iluvdatiger)
Agree. Historically - I don't get along the best with people that have "tunnel hearing" but those have been few and far in between.
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quail man 
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:44 pm to Big Lake)
typically, i dislike people who feel like this
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I always judge people on what type of music they like moreso than any other character trait.
more than people who listen to this
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My Chemical Romance
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 12:31 am to quail man)
I hate when people have a shitty taste in music,but as long as it doesn't directly affect me (like at a party or in a car or something) then I don't care
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 6:01 am to Big Lake)
If I notice someone is into strictly main stream music (i have lots of friends like this), ill never take them seriously when it comes to music, but that's doesn't make me frown upon them as a person.
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 6:30 am to Big Lake)
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I always judge people on what type of music they like moreso than any other character trait
If I did that -- judge people on the basis of their taste in music, movies, etc -- I'd have no friends.
People with my taste in music are invariably pretentious a-holes
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CottonWasKing
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 9:26 am to TigerHam85)
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If I notice someone is into strictly main stream music (i have lots of friends like this), ill never take them seriously when it comes to music, but that's doesn't make me frown upon them as a person.
This but I can't date a chick if she has shite taste in music
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CottonWasKing
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 9:26 am to Kafka)
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If I did that -- judge people on the basis of their taste in music, movies, etc -- I'd have no friends.
You have friends???
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Kafka
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 9:41 am to CottonWasKing)
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You have friends???
I'd have even fewer if I based it on them agreeing with my taste in music
That's a very immature and rather arrogant attitude
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stonedbegonias
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 9:53 am to Big Lake)
I used to judge people based on their taste in music, then I grew the frick up.
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:00 am to stonedbegonias)
"It's not what you're like, it's what you like." Of course, while this is a good line, the lesson of High Fidelity is that this attitude is wrong.
I will say that people have mainstream tastes in everything tend not to be adventuresome people. It doesn't mean I don't like them or think less of them, but I do find that I'm more likely to find them boring. But it's not a hard and fast rule or anything.
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Big Lake
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:06 am to Baloo)
I worded my post wrong. I have plenty of friends who have bad taste in music but in making first impressions and when all else is equal I definitely judge people's personality based on their taste in music.
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CottonWasKing
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:13 am to Baloo)
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I will say that people have mainstream tastes in everything tend not to be adventuresome people. It doesn't mean I don't like them or think less of them, but I do find that I'm more likely to find them boring. But it's not a hard and fast rule or anything.
Hit the nail on the head here.
However like I said earlier I look at music taste in a potential SO pretty heavily.
Mainly because if I can't go to concerts/festivals with her or if we can't just listen and talk about music then we're not going to have much at all in common so what's the point?
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Big Lake
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:18 am to CottonWasKing)
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However like I said earlier I look at music taste in a potential SO pretty heavily.
I do too, as long as they are open to wide variety of music I am hunky dory but if they are caged up in their one shitty genre I will bail.
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olddawg26 
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:19 am to Big Lake)
A good bit. Although I studied piano theory for years and play a few instruments. I can tolerate mainstream stuff but I prefer more thought out music. The pop thing deserves respect from a producer and engineering pov, making this stuff sound so good and be so catchy takes talent regardless if it's in Gmaj. That being said a drunk girl on a boat cranked up call me maybe excruciatingly loud one time and I hit her in the face with a red starburst.
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SUB
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 11:39 am to olddawg26)
The OP sounds a little pretentious, but maybe I'm reading his post differently. While I do agree that you can learn a lot about a person from their taste in music, it is pretty shallow to use that one characteristic to judge a person as a whole. Most of my friends don't share my taste in music or what I consider "good", but good taste in music is very subjective. I can find other things in common with people, such as LSU, sports, movies, hobbies, etc, and enjoy the company of people with these characteristics just as much or more than those that have the same taste in music.
Like someone else said, many people that like the same music as me can often be pretentious dicks, so why would I want to hang around them?
This post was edited on 2/14 at 11:40 am
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| re: How much does someone's taste in music affect your opinion of them? (Posted on 2/14/13 at 12:16 pm to SUB)
If I get in someone's ride and they crank up some modern country radio or mainstream, played-out rap, I wanna punch them. You should see the right side of my wife's face.
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