I want my MP3

Getting the right headphones brings music to the ears.

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23rd May, 2009

Recently I went to a 30th birthday party that had all the trappings I enjoy. Good food, wine and music and someone else was paying. It was, astonishingly, 30 years since the Sony Walkman was born and the company was throwing a bash to celebrate the occasion. From the vantage point of 2009 it is almost unbelievable that there was a time in the relatively recent past when you could not take your own music wherever you went. I first encountered the Walkman in 1980 when I was working in TVNZ's Christchurch newsroom. Being a recently arrived Auckland city-slicker and possibly the only ...

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