D, motherfucker, D

(not a young hip kid on the streets of New York...but

my radio, believe me, I like it loud)

"People that were big fans of music at the time were into higher-fidelity, better-quality sound — bass, midrange and treble," Freddy says. "So [the manufacturers] listened to what the consumer, what the young hip kid on the streets of New York, wanted. We wanted bass."

A Eulogy for the Boombox on NPR.