Trend? I don't know. I certainly don't think of anyone else when I put the 'phones on and leave the helmet off.

I listen to a lot of miniature classical music on headphones, usually impressionist-era piano stuff. My chief complaint is that I can't hear it well enough over the noise of traffic, since it's acoustic to begin with and has frequently variable soft-medium-loud dynamic ranges that are largely absent in popular amplified music. I've listened to Led Zeppelin and the Beatles before on the 'phones, and I could hear everything quite loudly on major roads, including the acoustic ballads, but I just don't like rock music that much anymore. Debussy & Ravel? I can barely hear it, unless it's one of the virtuoso pieces or I'm on a really quiet country road and there is little to no wind. Boy do I love those days though...I find that violin music cuts through where piano can't though, so I pack a lot of Oistrakh, Kreisler, and Heifetz. I can still hear the outside world quite well.

I also don't wear a helmet; I find them uncomfortable.

Oh, and I run stop signs all the time if nobody's coming the other way.

I'm just a cycling sinner, and I'm going to cycling hell, which I think is somewhere near Buffalo, NY.