Playing Apple TV through my Onkyo receiver requires the TV to be powered on, can this be avoided?

My Apple tv is connected to an HDMI input on my Onkyo receiver and plays perfrctly but requires the TV connected to the HDMI output to be powered on to play music thtough the received, is there a way to play music through the receiver without having the TV powered on?

According to the following thread, it looks like the TV has to be on in order to play music:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17638488#17638488
My wild guess is they were trying to close some kind of security (DRM) hole and ended up making the AppleTV less useful for streaming music than an AirPort Express. Sigh.
Edit: Ignore me. Jon8979's response is much better than mine. He posted it while I was composing mine.

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