Yep, a legend in my own mind.
But I'm not calling it quits just yet.
Funny thing about REM, I clearly remember the first time I heard them was, 1983, not on the radio, but just after I moved from San Francisco to suburban Walnut Creek, a record from my new public library. (Pre-Napster bootlegging)
Never heard of them, took a chance, and the rest, as they say, is history.