Steve Miller's success came when I was a teen. No matter how hard I worked, I could afford only a little piece of our shared culture as albums were monopoly pri

Steve Miller's success came when I was a teen. No matter how hard I worked, I could afford only a little piece of our shared culture as albums were monopoly priced; someone was getting rich. To add, where I lived we could not pick up much rock music on the radio, and only later were very rare concerts (but they were good and inexpensive; Styx for example). I hear echoes of all this in his statements.