When I was an angsty teen, we had only one beer because every other beer cost as much as a six pack for one can because they were all imported. So I raise a bottle of Black Sheep to this meme.
When I was a teen in the UK when you went to a party you bought a "party 4" yes you guessed it - 4 pints of beer in one can. Once opened you either drank it or left it, a literal no brainer.
My two best friends and I would pitch in for cases, but usually when we went to parties, they were usually keggers with a $5 cover charge which usually went to buy more beer.
How old are you? Because if your in your 20s or 30s and you had beer back in the time where generic was the main type of beer, than you were WAY too young to be drinking