"People listened to music on mechanical gramophones and enjoyed" Herman Hesse (or rather Harry Haller in Steppenwolf) used to get enraged by that - distorted g

"People listened to music on mechanical gramophones and enjoyed" Herman Hesse (or rather Harry Haller in Steppenwolf) used to get enraged by that - distorted garbage and a blasphemy to the godly componists. But then eventually he overcame it because of exactly that reasoning - if people enjoy it and are touched by the music - it works good enough. That is the purpose of music, not arbitrary perfectionism.