Remember the Walkman?

I still remember that birthday in the summer of 1982, getting this new device that was all the rage at the time, and how excited my parents were to give it to me. It was a portable stereo cassette player—the infamous Sony Walkman. My Dad was very excited and impressed about the fact that it was stereo sound, and that no one else could hear it thanks to the headphones. I remember too that my parents almost didn’t buy me the J. Geils Band Freeze-Frame album to go with my new Walkman because of the song ‘Piss on the Wall.’ Happily I won out; I think I played that tape so many times I wore it out.