Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Antique Music
Click the pictures for larger (800 pixels wide) versions. Not shown are a couple of blanks that apparently had some songs recorded onto them. There was also an Aerosmith 8-track my brother borrowed when he had an old car with a player in it.
Weird, huh? I came across the box of 8-tracks while going through stuff in preparation for the move. They were all given to me by a friend who graduated high school a year ahead of me. He was switching media. Strangely enough, I had bought a stereo that happened to have an already rare 8-track player, in addition to tuner, cassette, and turntable. Some of these are not to my taste, and most of them never got played by me, but I’m not one to ditch something like this lightly.
Ironically, I still have that stereo, in storage, and the only part of it that still works is the 8-track player. Sound only comes out of one speaker. The radio comes in poorly at best. The turntable and cassette no longer worked right. But it would still play 8-track tapes! The stereo should have been thrown away years ago, but that was part of the reason I kept it. Same reason for wanting to have a 5 1/4” floppy drive around in case I want to look at what’s on the hundreds of 5 1/4” floppies I have around.
I should probably just toss them or find a collector who’d want them… but hey, they don’t take up that much space.