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My stereo in high school in the mid-90s was one of those stacked combo CD-player tape deck radio deals. Might have bought it at Best Buy deals might have bought it at best buy might

have bought it at Radio Shack might have bought it out of a Sears catalog might have bought it off the

back of a covered gypsy wagon pulled by oxen that rumbled from town to town this was a single

CD player not the coveted three or even five disc changer where you could hit shuffle and it would arduously were to life like Ultron, like zz, and physically change CDs between each and every song. It took like 20 seconds. Very soothing rhythm, actually. No, what my modest single-disc CD player had was the preview function.

It could play just the first 10 seconds of every track on a CD one after the other.

I did not see the point of this.

I did not need to ascertain the vibe of Radioheads, the bends before committing to just playing it.

I got it. Thanks. But I loved that stereo. It finally conked out in college.

Frankly, I don't think it broke so much as resigned in protest. One day it was just like,

dude, that's enough bill to spill and went, but regardless, I vowed to honor my stereo's

years of service by throwing it off the Richland Avenue Bridge at Ohio University.

A Viking funeral of sorts, not OSU, the other one.

This bridge was like maybe 30 feet over a ravine marsh type situation.

We were going to clean it up right after.

My buddy Jeff was going to stand in the marsh to dissuade any pedestrians or raccoons. He probably would have done this. We were

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