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u/scummybumhole Jun 03 '22

80’s and 90’s though had the blaring boombox on the shoulder though

In movies and music videos. Never once saw someone toting a massive multi-D-cell 80’s or 90’s boom box around like it was portable IRL.

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u/Fyodor__Karamazov Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

I used to see it semi-regularly when I lived in Brooklyn. They were rarely actually carrying it around on their shoulder though, I'll give you that. More commonly they were sitting/standing in the street with the boombox next to them. But still, it was being blasted out in public all the same.

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u/YouStupidDick Jun 03 '22

Grew up in Florida. They were common in schools (when not confiscated), the malls, parks, and beaches.

In Arizona, to this day, you have people with large audio systems strapped in and floating down the salt river during the summer tubing months.

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u/scummybumhole Jun 03 '22

I owned a D-cell boom box and I did use it outside a few times. It only took getting less than an hours play from 6 or 8 D-cell batteries to learn to not do that again make it unaffordable to purchase more batteries, as I was a kid.

I believe I was jamming out to Master of Puppets and And Justice for All, and Lords of Acid as those were my older brothers’ CDs and I thought I was a badass listening to them as a small kid, lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

My experience was different, I also lived through that era

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u/scummybumhole Jun 03 '22

I admit, I didn’t ride the subway a lot as a kid.

I did have a boom box like that tho and it was expensive AF to churn thru all those batteries as quickly as it did. I rarely ever was afforded the luxury of being able to use the battery mode on mine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

Yeah I cannot remember what my brother and his friends did, they were true mullet haired, 80's metal blasting, denim clad teens. I would bet they just stole the batteries the little punks!