My 19 year old son and all his friends/school mates listen to the same classic rock I grew listening to in the 1970’s & 1980’s. The big difference was I was listening to it on vinyl, 8 track and cassette. He is listening to it on his phone or computer.
I visited my moms this past summer with my son. I showed him the Meatloaf Bat out of Hell album(he has this on this downloaded on his phone) I had in my old bedroom on 8 TRACK. Unfortunately, we could not get the Panasonic 8 Track stereo with Thruster speakers to function. The radio still works. Like Marty Mcfly says: “All the best stuff is made in Japan”.
I remember my son playing The Cars’ first album almost non-stop for about a month.