THE PHOTO: Athens, Ga., 1982

MICHAEL STIPE SAYS: ''That's a thrift-store suit and thrift-store glasses and a thrift-store hat. Athens was the kind of community where people didn't have the kind of money that they have in Los Angeles or Chicago or New York, so there were a lot of thrift stores. You'd get an old suit and usually it would have like a 40'' waist, so you would just cinch it with a rope or a belt and that became a whole look. It seemed like a lot of really short, rotund guys passed away in the late '70s and early '80s, and those were the suits that you had to wear, and so you just kind of worked with it.''