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It used to be that only the "rich" friends families had stuff like this. At one point you could not give these away for free and everyone wanted the smallest most compact system they could get.

It used to be that only the "rich" friends families had stuff like this. At one point you could not give these away for free and everyone wanted the smallest most compact system they could get.

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CD player? Where's the 8-Track?

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8 track? Reel to reel!

My dad even had a record player in his car, and his buddy at the record store would make him custom records to play in the car. Those things are THICK, I still have 'em.

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I still have my turntable !

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I didn't realize I was rich. I should have been driving a nicer truck.

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Man, when I was a kid my family could not dream of having enough money to buy a system like that even. Its relative to who/where you were and what your parents did for a living.

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My parents had one of the old cupboard style record players. Stereos weren't quite as important to them as us old rockers. 😆🕺🔊🎶🎸

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Sony

Had the entire stack of top end gear with two Cerwin Vega speakers with the 14" woofers back in the (very) early '90s. That setup made my neighbors mad, it would rattle the plaster off of the walls.

Wasn't rich though, I just knew when to blow my good credit and never pay it back. Threw in an NEC Turdografix 16 just for the fuck of it because why not.

edit: It was all topped off with an SL 1200 MK2 turntable that I had somehow liberated from a club in downtown Hollyweird in the late '80s. A legendary turntable like that really did need a capable supporting system.

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Some of the best sounding music you'll ever hear, too

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Not just a full stereo, radio and turnable system with two and a half foot JBL speakers on either side of the living room but a 3 bed 2 bath with garage and backyard off one income. The real rich kids had a fridge and novelty arcade box in the garage, wih soda and cereal on shelf.

Black and green screen Apple with games and Math Blaster, plus a full encylopedia set to read at leisure

Stuff people take for granted now was indeed a hard earned luxury