This is the new, and twisted, conformism that Adorno speaks about, a deviation from the rules of music and the submission to the logic of industry. This new conformism results in regressive listening: Regressive listening is tied to production by the machinery of distribution, and particularly by advertising . . . nothing is left for the consciousness but to capitulate before the superior power of the advertised stuff and purchase spiritual peace by making the imposed goods literally its own thing.

It can be inferred that ‘regressive listening’

A.involves yielding to the stronger argument of the industry.
B.is a new form of conformism.
C. leads to the commercialisation of spirituality.
D. is a deviation from the rules of the industry.
E.None of the above.