Five fads you took part in
Sony "Sports" Walkman

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Ech... You kids and yer iPods! In my day we carried around something real... something hefty... something "yellow". The Sports walkmans were pretty awesome for their strength. You could drop one pretty severely and still have it work. And just like white ear buds are the thing now, yellow headphones in 1989 meant that you really you had the "right" walkman. (Mine had mega-bass and auto-reverse--key elements for discriminating walkman users.) It's funny to think of how many cassettes one had to carry around in an accompanying backpack to not be stuck listening to only Master of Puppets the entire day. (Which wasn't really all that bad of a cassette, if you forgot the others.) ( Edited by karj)

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