As I sit here munching on a grilled cheese sandwich and listening to Jan Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" CD cranked up to just under ear damaging levels, I was wondering on a couple things---.

How many of you from the sixties and seventies still have to slip to listen to the best music of the century.   When I was 20, I had to listen in seclusion when the folks weren't home to crank it up to proper levels but still be under sound pressures that wouldn't call down the wrath of the neighbors. Or, listen to the eight-tracks in my car stereo. 

Now I still have to do it in seclusion because my teenage kids turn up their noses and and say "what in the crap is that?"  If I turn it up they complain. 

Some things never change, I guess.

Am I alone?