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I feel it's time for boomboxes to come back. Not purple medicine-pill bluetooth players, but big ol' boxes you can put on your shoulder and Fight the Power wit

I feel it's time for boomboxes to come back. Not purple medicine-pill bluetooth players, but big ol' boxes you can put on your shoulder and Fight the Power with 8" speakers. There was a whole movement around playing music out, now we just inject it into our ear canals. Nostalgia... or genius?

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KineticLensman 7y ago
Personally I'm happy for it to remain as nostalgia. I was at a campsite recently and the people in the tent next door had a playlist that was execrable. They weren't actually too loud and they adhered to the site's night-time noise cut-off rule, but their choice of music - massively different from mine - really degraded the pleasure of the camping experience that evening. YMMV. [Edit] Also, I am perhaps biased here because I am moderately deaf, and thus sensitized to noise pollution. Music makes it very hard to follow conversations, even with my hearing aids. This wasn't actually a problem at the campsite, but is a total conversation killer in enclosed spaces with hard surfaces (like many restaurants).
nicky0 7y ago
They are back. At least, in my neighbourhood, the kids are walking around with giant bluetooth shoulder-size boomboxes.
acheron 7y ago
My opinion on that is about the same as Kirk and Spock's: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/punk-star-trek-iv-vulcan-nerve-pinch/ https://www.wired.com/2016/09/punk-star-trek-iv-vulcan-nerve... edit: while searching for that, I discovered that Kirk Thatcher is reprising the role in a cameo in the new Spider-man movie: https://www.startrek.com/article/trek-ivs-punk-on-bus-returns-in-spider-man-homecoming https://www.startrek.com/article/trek-ivs-punk-on-bus-return...