There was a long period of time when I lived with Punks and Hippies and other fringe subcultures where I had no access to MTV. In the punk house I lived in (one of two in the early 80s) we had a giant old tube Color TV. The back was off, so it was just a huge cathode ray tube wrapped in copper wire with the convergence knobs on the circuit board around the yoke and the single wire going to the flyback transformer that would glow slightly in Tesla-blue electric in the dark room filled with cigarette smoke as we watched The Wall, Suburbia (Spheeris) and Rise and fall of Western Civ I (also Spheeris). 20 of us drinking and smoking, packed in the living room. The tuner on the TV didn't work to receive broadcasts, but we could play tapes. We were quite a scene going down to rent a tape and a VCP (video cassete player), 10 punks and me, always the normie with the ID to actually rent stuff. When I look up a YT song from that period, it is often first time I've seen it. Here is one vid from those transient times that I was thinking of, but didn't see until today: https://youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA I have had *way too much fucking fun*. I'll tell ya.