If I can go off on a bit of a tangent. The image at the top of the article is from Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989). The character is Radio Raheem and his

If I can go off on a bit of a tangent. The image at the top of the article is from Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989). The character is Radio Raheem and his boombox plays only Fight The Power by Public Enemy, which was made for the film. The movie is strictly about what happens when racial tensions boil over on a very hot day in Brooklyn. But really, it's about people, and how we treat one another when we're stuck in a system more powerful than ourselves. It's as relevant today as it was thirty years ago, and not just in America. It may as well be about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Great movie, strong recommend. Back to the article: I owned a JVC-100 in red, just like the one pictured. I never took it out much because it seemed so fragile and my memory is that it sounded like crap compared to a hunk of plastic durable Sony that I also owned. I have no idea where either of those boomboxes got off to. Probably sold in a garage sale at some point.