Modern 8-Track tapes
June 26th, 2007
“Mention an appreciation of 8 track tapes, and you’ll get a lot of bewildered looks. At one time 8-track was the only portable music format, and now it’s been unfairly reduced to a punchline – a thick plastic icon of the 60’s and 70’s.
There are a number of reasons to be genuinely sore at 8-tracks. You couldn’t rewind the carts, the internal mechanisms could fritz out, and worst of all – the songs were often put on the tape in a different order than the album. “
Read all about it at Retro Thing