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8 tracks were sort of on the way out when I got into music. I had a ton of cassettes but mostly chucked them when cds came out, then chucked those when streaming became big. I do respect people who collect them, or vinyl for that matter. I just don’t like having to find a spot to put stuff.
Skipped that one. I had a record collection. I used cassette tapes a bit back when cars had just cassette players and when people made mix tapes on tape. Then I had a CD collection I’m gradually disposing of in 2025.
But 8-track tape was never appealing to me. I had friends who had 8-track players in their cars, and that was great. But the sound quality was so low for the 8-tracks, and actually cassette tapes annoyed me a lot if I wasn’t in the car, where the engine and road noise drowned out the hissing. While my wife had a tape deck 40 and even 30 and 20 years ago, we nearly never used it. Records were just a lot better, for me at least, if you weren’t out driving.
Nope. Went straight from LPs (the big, 33⅓ RPM vinyl records) to “standard” tape cassettes (the kind you could wind with a pencil if you needed to), then to CDs.
My older siblings did. One was kept to collect because of whose music it was. I’m unsure what happened to the rest. I still have my records and some from other family members. Cassettes were popular when I was young and I gave those away after switching to CDs AND MP3s.
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8 tracks were sort of on the way out when I got into music. I had a ton of cassettes but mostly chucked them when cds came out, then chucked those when streaming became big. I do respect people who collect them, or vinyl for that matter. I just don’t like having to find a spot to put stuff.
“Did”? Replace “Did” with “Do”.
Yes and more than once I joined the Columbia club for $1.00 and got a big selection. Somehow I have a couple left.
Skipped that one. I had a record collection. I used cassette tapes a bit back when cars had just cassette players and when people made mix tapes on tape. Then I had a CD collection I’m gradually disposing of in 2025.
But 8-track tape was never appealing to me. I had friends who had 8-track players in their cars, and that was great. But the sound quality was so low for the 8-tracks, and actually cassette tapes annoyed me a lot if I wasn’t in the car, where the engine and road noise drowned out the hissing. While my wife had a tape deck 40 and even 30 and 20 years ago, we nearly never used it. Records were just a lot better, for me at least, if you weren’t out driving.
Nope. Went straight from LPs (the big, 33⅓ RPM vinyl records) to “standard” tape cassettes (the kind you could wind with a pencil if you needed to), then to CDs.
No. Records to cassettes to CD’S.
8track was in most cars at the time, so yes.
My older siblings did. One was kept to collect because of whose music it was. I’m unsure what happened to the rest. I still have my records and some from other family members. Cassettes were popular when I was young and I gave those away after switching to CDs AND MP3s.