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For many players, particular songs had a tendency to stand out and become permanently ingrained. There are many songs in the game, and most of them still get played a lot in [[Real Life]]. So situations would often come up where a person hears a song on the radio and immediately thinks of the ''Grand Theft Auto'' game it was featured in. ("I Ran" is an especially common example, due to being featured in Vice City's trailer.)
Another curious effect is that the player would hear a song that they disliked or from a genre they wouldn't listen to, and it would grow on them as it's repeated. (Known in psychology as [[wikipedia:Mere
You can also get a pang of nostalgia from the stuff that some not-so-famous musicians came up with for the first two ''GTA'' games -- "Taxi Drivers Must DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" It's just that you are much less likely to run into those songs if you aren't playing those games.
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