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- Personally, there are milliseconds of certain Beastie Boys songs that have the power to transport me to another time and place: With "So What'cha Want," I'm riding around in the back of a friend's new car packed with four other girls—I can't remember the car, but I can almost smell the seats—the tape deck (yes, tape deck) turned up to full volume, us sing-chanting along. With "Professor Booty" I'm listening to tapes with my brother as my mom yells at us to come down to dinner. With "Fight for Your Right," I'm jumping up and down at a party with friends after trying my first sip of vodka. Those of us of around the same age, and those of us still younger and also older, have similar stories and experiences with the music of the Beastie Boys. As evidence of our connection with the band and the Boys-turned-men in it, more than 20 years later, "Fight for Your Right Revisited" is no less transportive. At the same time it's highly applicable on a meta level, as perfect for our Internet time now as it was for its original release in 1986.