Growing up through the lens of Beastie Boys Albums.
Life in general: I own the following albums, Plus three or four EP's Cookie Puss (1983) Licensed to Ill (1986) Paul's Boutique (1989) Check Your Head (1992) Some Old Bullshit (1994) Ill Communication (1994) The In Sound from Way Out! (1996) Hello Nasty (1998) To the 5 Boroughs (2004) The Mix-Up (2007) Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011) So I'm 40 years old. That makes me 8 years old when Cookie Puss dropped. For the record I was not listening to Bootleg Lp's of the Beastie Boys when I was 8 years old. I got my hands on Cookie-puss many years latter. Given the members of the band are all about 8 years ahead of me age wise in makes sense that I came to the party a bit late. I was aware of MTV when I was Eleven, considering my sister is six years older than I am, I was was exposed to all her music at the time. (Mostly Hair bands, but anything on MTV was fair game.) Regardless of how it happened for better or worse the dawning of my teenage years can be s...