NPR remembers the boombox.

The most interesting part:

When the music was loud and unavoidable, we had to listen to each other. Maybe we miss boomboxes because when we’re wearing headphones, we can’t talk to anyone else. Which makes it hard to help each other out, and makes it hard to party.

Can you remember a time before iPods when we had to listen to each other’s music?

Here are some more ways the iPod is hurting music.