"What are you listening to right now" Threads Question

[TheBig3]

But whats the argument for them? People are too lazy to find the thread devoted to the band?

From my perspective, I only click "New Posts" and go into what strikes me as interesting. If I were to go into a "What are you listening to" thread and they just posted a youtube video and some non-descript comment, I have nothing else to go on. If its in an actual thread about the artist(s), then I've got a little bit of an idea of whats going on already.

I just feel like these threads are the lowest common denominator and more over, discussion that happens in those threads actually hurts the thread about the band because a piece of the discussion is now disjointed. I'm not burning with a passion to seem them removed, but I don't see what positives they give us.