c/vintageads · by BilSabab@lemmy.world · 3d

Philips D-8254 ad (1985)

43 points · 7 comments · view on lemmy.world

7 Comments

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Cocaine is a helluva drug

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d (1 reply)

I genuinely think we underestimate the role of cocaine as a social force in the 70s and 80s.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

Agreed

Aeao@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d

A boombox is not a toy!

MrOtingocni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d (1 reply)

As much as I love vaporware, I feel like the 80's had a lot more going on in their aesthetics than that.

BilSabab@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d

a lot more and vaporwave is technically a culture industry in action - cue lots of scary german folks and french folks too saying strange words.

spacehulk@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 3d

What an ugly design. Even for the time. Like, 99% of the time those speakers will never be disconnected, so you just always have wires hanging off the back, with no little channel to stuff them into.