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For some reason this made me flashback to the summer of 1981 when MTV first went on the air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs https://www.youtube.com
by ck2 4y ago
For some reason this made me flashback to the summer of 1981 when MTV first went on the air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs
Spot the mainframe cabinet and wait for the full wall Moog
(they actually showed non-stop videos back then, it was awesome, nothing like it before)
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