Not all spacers live the gritty life Yondu does. Some of them live well and live in finery.

"It's a fin. This one's cybernetic, but we got 'em naturally, too. And the one I had before-" he feels the top of that one, trying to gauge its distance from the bunk wall. He hates it. He did this to himself. "-Was shorter. Like just yay much bigger. But this one works better."

Long justification for inconveniencing himself. But he'd put off putting it on for that reason. Good thing he did.