"I can't listen to this. It's Video Game music and needs to be in a game"

Heh, I'm actually the of the opposite opinion about being spoiled by soundtracks. I especially like it when I can fall in love with certain tracks from a soundtrack, and then hear it in context in a game later on. Often, I develop an imaginative context in my mind (of what I think the context will be like), and it's interesting to compare that with what context that the track actually has. I dunno.. The feeling of "Hey, I know this music~" is actually pretty cool to me.

Plus, there's so many great soundtracks out there. It'd be a shame for me not to listen to them, regardless of whether or not I've played the game.


More on topic, though... It's indeed a shame that people expect game music to be heard in-game, and have that stereotypical opinion that all game music is geeky. I've come across these kinds of people before too, and it's pretty hard to convince them that game music is simply music. Like Onyx mentioned... "Music's music."

As was mentioned in another thread somewhere, one of the biggest problems is that they're used to band music (= vocals, which most VGM doesn't have). Most people probably find it hard to appreciate purely instrumental music. Heck, it took me a while to appreciate non-vocals tracks, but the more I listened, the more I warmed up to it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.