Sony "Sports" walkman

Saturday afternoon my in-laws brought my son my wifes old yellow sports walkmen...this thing is the size of a lunchbox. What makes it sporty? Its yellow? Big fucking deal. Oh wait its waterproof supposedly isn't it? Yes, a waterproof walkman, god forbid peoples fat boys tapes got ruined while they did laps. Actually who the fuck would work out to the fat boys. I don't really know what this has to do with anything.

did it have an armband? so you could have a little more freedom in your power-walking armswing?

i think you had to strap it onto your belt. honestly the thing is like 6 x 7 inches...and it also ways a pound for fucks sake.

auto-reverse, baby.

weighs

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/walkman-sports-82.jpg

i used to love the sports walkmen. yeah.

and discmen. it's the thing to do if you don't want it to skip.

it does bring back memories of listening to my "thinking" mixtapes...basically my "thinking" mixes involved shitty Chicago ballads and Benny Mardones.

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/sony-girl1.jpg

sooo fast

hard fuckin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

wait a second, is benny mardones a pedophile....wtf. Never paid attention when i was a fat 12 year old.

hmm just looked on itunes for Benny Mardones, of course i just fucking spent .99 for this shit. Why. Its off of a cd called "Ultimate Wedding Hits!". If this is ever played at a wedding im attending i will fucking tear it up. I bet there are some 40 year olds that would make out the hard way on the dance floor...its almost a guarantee someones uncle will dry hump the bride to this shit.

omg i love singing that song at karaoke. one time i dedicated it to r kelly.

I used to have one of these...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/1564325101_9650c211b5.jpg
...they were rather large, the window being almost as wide across as the cassette.

Oh FUUUUCK I had one of those! I made it non-water resistant by taking out some of the rubber or sth. Fuck I liked that walkman.

so beautiful

(xpost) the radio on mine stopped working, then shortly after the whole thing packed in. I replaced it with the distinctly less impressive (and radio-less) WM-SX34. Both suffered from the same problem - nothing to hold the cassette in place firmly, so it kept rising off the spindles as it played.

And it doesn't count as a "Sports" Walkman, but gathering dust at the bottom of a cupboard I had one of these...
http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v275/164/93/16941053674/n16941053674_546986_8638.jpg
...an Aquapac Aquaman

ahhhahahahaha

Yes, a waterproof walkman, god forbid peoples fat boys tapes got ruined while they did laps.

dying, who is this guy

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/xrm-10.jpg

wau

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/xrm-10.jpg

err

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/xrm-10.jpg

I was looking at the Volvo XC60 and was amazed one still has the CD player option.

i went thru like three of these

http://www.distantcreations.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tn_wm-bf59a.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epP3jETf8Og

Yes, a waterproof walkman, god forbid peoples fat boys tapes got ruined while they did laps.

dying, who is this guy

― cutty, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:03 (38 minutes ago) Permalink

Agreed. This is gold.

Serious answer: my guess is that once walkman technology became cheap and ubiquitous and no longer a status thing, Sony needed some new way of charging more for a high-end status walkman.

We still have the waterproof Sony sports walkman hooked up to our stereo, for those drunken nights when you get really nostalgic and just HAVE to play that mixtape with Pat Benatar doing Hell is For Children live...juxtaposed with Rush's Temple of Syrinx.

and those waterproof walkmen were the bomb for when you wanted to listen to music in the bathtub. my friend had one that had a little industrial submarine window in it and everything.

My god I never thought about listening to my walkman in the tub. I did all my best masturbating in the tub when I was young and if I thought about using the Walkman to add to the flavor I would have struck gold.. Crankin it in the tub with "hard to say I'm sorry" going in my ear...buckets baby buckets.

i had the radio shack Realistic (TM) knockoff of this

that sports Walkman was the best Walkman ever produced; I fucking loved that thing

ours still works like a champ.

I totally had this. Probably coopted by my ilxor younger brother.

i remember thinking about taking it in the shower.i somehow had the luminous idea to figdet with the rubber. :-(

god i loved that walkman. i think i played george michael's faith and neneh cherry's raw like sushi on that on repeat. a discman somehow seemed ridic in comparison

i had a blue then a yellow sony sports walkman. they were sports because they were hard molded plastic with bud headphones and waterproof. most walkmens back then were black and boxy and felt kind of flimsy. i mostly used mine in the tub too.

RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11618899

it does bring back memories of listening to my "thinking" mixtapes...basically my "thinking" mixes involved shitty Chicago ballads and Benny Mardones.

― thebingoisback, Monday, 5 October 2009 20:02 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ love this

I always wanted one of these but never got one.

(the "Sports" edition, I mean)

no way is that yellow thing waterproof?!

water-resistant

i think i started this thread completely hammered.

You know I am not so sad, I preferred trying to see how many radio stations I could get instead of listening to mixtapes.

I still see people with these on the El.

My sister had one of these, I was v. envious.

when i saw this on the news today my first reaction was surprise that they were still making any of these things at all.

but still :'( because i had the exact same black one as in the article photo. it took some terrible abuse and in the end was actually in about five pieces held together by layers of duct tape - kept working for YEARS in that state. RIP.

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/graphics/b2f-scene.jpg

I never tested the water resistance because I'd be out a phenomenal amount of money - like a whole $50 or something -if it broke. I also eventually colored mine black with a sharpie.

I have fond memories of spinning tapes around on a pencil in study hall so I could save battery power by not having to rewind.

Some company used to sell a gadget with a hand operated crank for manually rewinding tapes.

had one of them, oh yes

would love to have the old sony walkman earphones

the yellow ones

I remember reading an Ivo story about him getting new Cocteau Twins mixes and going to the zoo and listening on his Walkman while wandering around there

RIP

xxp they are really uncomfortable IIRC