Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation?

A little on subject/off subject remark:

When I was 17, I blew a woofer in my brother's Sansui speakers playing The Big Sound of the Drags LP.  I took them to the local audio saloon for repair and was told: "Sansui speakers aren'tt worth the postage to send them here from Japan!!"  That was my first experience with an audio specialty store. 

Then I opened one years later.  Slow learner, I guess.

I was an unfortunate member of the “Flame Linear:  Phase Linear” club. 

Body Oder : Bang & Olufsen

Balony : Sony

My own coinage, I think, Broken Awful Soon, as opposed to the popular Bang & Awfulson.  Others bandied about in the mid 70s Harvard Square included Oinko, San-screwy, Yo Mama, Manrats, Hibachi, Toast-Sheba, Japan Victim Corp., RePox, Drool, and of course, the Common Hardon was a favorite. 

BLO-ZAK

GO-NAD