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[jesu]

most of the time, boomboxes were used among willing crowds( this was back when going outside was really popular). Only a few times would you have some attention seekers blasting them out in random public. I don't compare them to cellphone blasters, because I have seem a lot more of those than I have annoying boom box users.

Yeah, you would be sitting at the park with your pals or whatever, only you and your pals would be listening.

 

[industrian]

 

[akira28]

Yeah, you would be sitting at the park with your pals or whatever, only you and your pals would be listening.

we would be dancing in the streets.

 

[Dai101]

we would be dancing in the streets.

 

[The Real Abed]

the wall of a bar in SF. pretty damn hipstery.

Pretty damn awesome if you ask me. I loved how they looked. It was the style at the time. Black and chrome with so many buttons, sliders and dials you didn't even know what they all did.

 

[akira28]

http://youtu.be/_li_d_YviZ4

 

[X05]

most of the time, boomboxes were used among willing crowds( this was back when going outside was really popular). Only a few times would you have some attention seekers blasting them out in random public. I don't compare them to cellphone blasters, because I have seem a lot more of those than I have annoying boom box users.

This.
Also let's not forget that these things actually had far, far better sound that the shit speakers 99% of the phones have now.