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Dec 10, 2012

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Preserves Hair Metal for the Ages

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is now in possession of leather chaps, a Budweiser-branded guitar and a a cassette tape featuring a mouse in a tank-top holding a knife. Ahhh, how we miss the hair metal of the 1980s.

 
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