Our friends at the LA Times' Brand X have dug up the following gem from the endlessly rewarding YouTube archive of universal weirdness.

It's the '70s. It's St. Louis. It's crazed Rocky Horror Picture Show fanatics.

It's… a very young Michael Stipe as Frank N Furter? (forward to 1:25).

Yup–it's him

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