Yup... my husband's the same way. I consider it to be "noise pollution" He can;t spend two mintues of quiet without the tv or the radio (when we're in the car.) Then if he tries to have a conversation with me, I try to turn down the volume and he gets upset... but hey, I'm not about to scream a conversation to compete with a loud tv or radio!

What gets me is that he falls asleep to this. He'll be snoring up a storm... ZZZZZZZZZ. Then I reach over to turn off the tv and he says "HEY! I was watching that!" It was sheer bliss when he was away on a road trip earlier this week. I didn't have the tv on once in the whole time he was gone! Ahhhhh, peace and quiet!