We're used to seeing impassioned displays on the subways, whether it's courtesy of our city's best buskers, happy headbangers, "Bohemian Rhapsody" addicts, or this very passionate human jukebox. But when was the last time you saw someone rocking out with a CD discman? Was it back when "Closing Time" was climbing its way up the charts and into our hearts? The man enjoying Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five's "Freedom" in the video below (skip ahead to 1:40) takes us back to a more carefree time when our brightest minds were hard at work developing stabilizer technology to end the scourge of disc skips.
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