I'm in the camp that thinks this thread is making a bigger deal than necessary out of something that's not a terribly big deal. I don't look at all the various corners of the forums regularly, but I definitely look at the music forum all the time. I already ignore some of the regularly active threads because they don't hew to my interests, so I don't really see how it can be that hard to ignore the occasional new rubbish thread.
Also I definitely enjoy seeing all of us in that forum put our pretentious encyclopedic knowledge of musical apocrypha to use in threads where people request listening recommendations.