That's pretty common, a lot of older phone systems will literally have a line input where you can hook up a looping music player, Muzak receiver, a radio (illegal but common anyways), or whatever else to provide the hold music feed and for the most part if the business has overhead audio they'll want to use that as their hold music as well.
Was it apple I called? They gave you the option of music on hold or silence on hold. So nice.
the worst is calling into doctor - a mix of terrible music and all kinds of nonsense like flu season advice piped into your brain.
It is like the audio equivalent of "helpful" tip popups with no [X] don't remind me again or even (X) to dismiss