"White punks on dope...." *LOL* I thought there ought to be some acid fanciers 'midst y'all....;)
Personally, I refrained from using a TT in that state....since mine at the time were 'hand cued' and I didn't fully trust self to be accurate or distracted by the process.... ;)
Grew up with older bro' who had what was at the time better than average but minimal gear. No real 'fi fanciers' in my social circle for most of my life, so was left to my own devices and tastes to bend to my finances.
Still basically stuck in that vein, which leads me to y'all....
Spent inordinate amounts of time in Pac Stereo and other B&M's in my CA years, listening to all manner of this 'n that.
First notable system: 2270 Marantz, Bose 901s2, AR tt w/Stanton 681s2 cart.
Bose later replaced w/Infinity Towers with the Walsh 'ice cream cone' super tweet.
All gave way to Kenwood L07 tuner, pre, and mono amps, Technics SL10 tt w/it's mc cart, Sony cass player, Sony VCR (cd level recordings on video tapes), Revox A77, a pair of ESS AMT1B's, and a 11 band LED'd eq w/calibrated mic for early room eq (forget the brand, but It Worked)....
Very clean, Very loud....closest to nirvana I could manage at the time and era. *G*
Since then....doing what I damn well please. *L*