A big difference -perhaps the biggest one - between then and now is social media. Didn't like Bowie, or KISS, or Crue? No matter, you went to the other sections of the record store to pick up your Zeppelin, Creedence or John Coltrane or Rachmaninoff . You didn't have to tell anyone what you liked, and nine times out of ten, *no one cared*. The pre-internet, pre-social media era allowed people to mind their own goddamn business. Now if you don't "like" something on IG, or TikTok or whatever it's considered a cultural avatar in and of itself. What do you *mean* you don't follow Gaga, are you a sexist tRanSpHObe or something BIGOT???

Goddamn I sound old - I am - but I mean it whenever I say I miss the '80s Every. Single. Day.