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After yesterday’s Supercollectors segment on boomboxes, we received some interesting feedback in the Soundcheck inbox.

Listener, Mark in Westland, Michigan writes:

I was working at Lafayette Radio Electronics in Livonia, MI when one afternoon Stevie Wonder walks through the door escorted by two large men wishing to look at our boom boxes.

I offered to help him select one, but he managed well enough on his own with a little help from his staff and after about 20 minutes of playing around with the machines he picked out a midsized box. (I can't recall the model or brand).

When it came time to pay for the blaster, he produced an American Express card signing for the purchase not with a pen but rather with a thumbprint instead of a signature, this inked from his own personal inkpad. Nice show!

And this from Angela,  who spent part of the 1980s and ‘90s living in West Africa:

I lived in Francophone West Africa 1988 - 1991 working for various NGOs, and one thing local men wanted from the US was boom boxes, described by the number of batteries rather than brand name. The higher the number of batteries, the better the boom box, according to the local wisdom. RayBan aviator sunglasses was another coveted gift, but a boom box that took 12 or more batteries was... the bomb!

Listen to the segment here. And tell us your boombox story too!