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He's not the only one, about 2 years ago a friend of mine bought a box of junk at a yard sale and there was a still sealed Three Dog Night 8 track in the box, he put it on the bay with a starting bid of $1 and sold it for $30. I was shocked.
 
I still have a couple of players, but only to use if I find something on eight track that I don't have on another format.
 
I don't think I'd ever accuse an 8-track of having class. It would be like saying a swimming pool blue or salmon pink Leisure Suit had class. I would believe kitsch value or maybe even a sense of nostalgia, but not class.

Of course people think I am nuts when I praise cassettes, so who am I to say what is class or not.
 
i've not had a player for decades but still have an unopened box of blank maxell 8track tapes. just a conversation piece.
 
8 tracks are mostly a novelty. Some people love them, some hate them. I'm the latter, but I do see the novelty in collecting them. I was amused in seeing Cheech & Chong and Big Bambu at the thrift store.
 
I was going to mention with more details the local to DFW "Kate's 8 Track Shack" and their "KTS Productions" that produced some new 8 track tapes for Cheap Trick a couple of years ago, but they seem to have gone out of business.
 
That man has to much time on his hands, and money!

Wait, I take that back. He spends most of his time repairing the tapes after they eat themselves, or the foam pressure pads disintegrate. This didn't just happen with age, but when brand new especially if left in a hot car!

I still have a Panasonic home deck that works very well, but I can't say that for my collection of about 200 tapes. Everytime I go to play one I'm granting it a death sentence. What a waste of money:tears:
 
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originally posted by parman He's not the only one, about 2 years ago a friend of mine bought a box of junk at a yard sale and there was a still sealed Three Dog Night 8 track in the box, he put it on the bay with a starting bid of $1 and sold it for $30. I was shocked.
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I have seen Iron Maiden 8 Tracks sell on the bay for $100 +(rare to see a posting!) the very same ones I have. Not that they are worth that, but some are willing to pay that price.

I bought a sealed KISS Love Gun 8 track years ago for around $15 after a few cases were discovered unopened.

I still retain my collection of around 400 tapes. Need to check the condition of them this fall as I have them stored away at the moment. Was a real collector of them from 1977 right up until the record stores sent them back to the distributors. So I am guilty of loving the novelty!

Cheap Trick recently released a album on the format limited run which goes for quite a few $$$$$
 
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I don't think I'd ever accuse an 8-track of having class. It would be like saying a swimming pool blue or salmon pink Leisure Suit had class. I would believe kitsch value or maybe even a sense of nostalgia, but not class.

Of course people think I am nuts when I praise cassettes, so who am I to say what is class or not.
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If there is a tape format with class, it's R2R!! Every recording made up until the '80s was recorded and mastered on R2R. It wasn't until the '90s that the majority of live recordings were made with digital. And it is not uncommon for recording to be done on analog tape today.
 
I've got some 8 tracks and a player simply because it was another piece of vintage Pioneer and it makes for some good laughs.
 
I have a Sony wood cased eight track player/recorder and I like to show it off when I show my wall of sound system

Tapes get eaten pretty often leading to a diminished stock of playable tapes

I also have some of those antique cylinder records but no player.......yet
 
They've retained a following partly because they were stock in many cars in the seventies. If you want your vehicle to be completely stock and it had an eight track you need to have the deck and if you have the deck you might as well have some tapes. :yes:

There are people that specialize in servicing vintage radios and tape decks from vintage cars and trucks. I have a buddy that does it.
 
Well, a man's gotta aspire to something, ha! I actually do have an 8 track set up with a retro system and a few (very few) tapes. Nice novelty show & tell for the young 'uns.
 
I refurbed a Wollensak 8080 recently. It sounds pretty good! Too bad the quad tapes are so freaking expensive!
 
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