Obsolete Entertainment: New Museum Honors 8-Track Tapes: "That's why Burnett is honoring the legacy of the 8-track tape by opening the Eight Track Museum in Dallas on Monday. But Burnett isn't as interested in the music as he is in the cartridges themselves.
'They had a lot of colors over the years, such as bright green and red,' he said. 'You can tell what era a cartridge comes from by the color -- and, of course, collectors want them all.'"
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Just because something is obsolete, doesn't mean it was great when it was around. 8-track sound was crap and I still remember that big "cu-lunk" sound in the middle of songs that had to be cut and spread over two tracks. Also, there was so much bleed-through you could always hear the song on track 3 as a song on track 1 ended.
/Ah, nostalgia!
I've known exactly three people, or maybe four, with sold old eight-tracks that were saved in storage.
I'm young enough I think that I remember when tapes were a way to trade music, and then they were supplanted by CDs and now the electronic file formats. And vinyl before that (followed by - though short-lived - those clunky 8-tracks) but vinyl still actually has a market...
Ah, but do you remember 4 track?
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Mr. Bucks is back!?! That is like the return of Snake "I thought you were dead" Plissken. I remember when I used to get the 8-Track Mind zine and follow the infighting within the microscopic 8-track community, a lot of which fighting centered on the theme, Mr Bucks -- he good or he bad? At any rate, he looking hippie, now.
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