I did proudly own a red plastic transistor radio as a youngun! My first tunes. I tore it apart to see what made it work, and that was the end of that.
After that I graduated up to an RCS all in one record player with built in amp and speaker. Loved that thing and only had a couple of 45's I played over and over and over... Drove my mom nuts.
THEN I got the afore mentioned "Stereo"...
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger." Frank Lloyd Wright