Personally I find it irritating to have excessively loud Uldah town music play for the hour it sometimes takes to download a patch. It feels akin to being put on hold and being forced to listen to new age jazz when trying to make an urgent phone call.

It's even worse when you first launch the game and get a quick blast of the music while it does the version check before switching to the log-in screen.

It would be more pleasant if it was without music.