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Some of you may know that I used to be a big collector of 8 track tapes. I know, it was a strange hobby, but it kept me out of trouble.
I have not really been into it much for the last 6 or 7 years, but if I see something rare for the right price, I'll buy it.
Anyway, I was at a local swap meet on Saturday and I spotted some very valuable tapes for sale for only $1.00 each. They were a B-52's tape and a Talking Heads tape. Most 8 tracks from the New Wave or Punk era are considered to be very collectable and I bought these so I could re-sell them on Ebay for big bucks.
So, I get home, clean the dust off them and pop them into my player to test them. That is when I discovered that some SON OF A BITCH recorded over the music with a radio broadcast of some easy listening station. I was so PISSED I could spit.
If I still had my old 8 track recorder, I could buy the CDs and record the correct music back onto the tapes, but I sold that a few years ago.
!!!SON OF A BITCH!!!
I have not really been into it much for the last 6 or 7 years, but if I see something rare for the right price, I'll buy it.
Anyway, I was at a local swap meet on Saturday and I spotted some very valuable tapes for sale for only $1.00 each. They were a B-52's tape and a Talking Heads tape. Most 8 tracks from the New Wave or Punk era are considered to be very collectable and I bought these so I could re-sell them on Ebay for big bucks.
So, I get home, clean the dust off them and pop them into my player to test them. That is when I discovered that some SON OF A BITCH recorded over the music with a radio broadcast of some easy listening station. I was so PISSED I could spit.
If I still had my old 8 track recorder, I could buy the CDs and record the correct music back onto the tapes, but I sold that a few years ago.
!!!SON OF A BITCH!!!
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 8:14 AMnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Clown!
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 4:48 PMThose dirty, no-good, 8trackbastages
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 7:13 PMSons-of-f-ing-bandages! Where is my ray-gun and a folger's can of red fire ants? Hunt them down and ...whatever! Seriously!! -
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Mon, June 1, 2009 - 7:17 PMI had no clue you could re-cord over 8-tracks..if there's a way.. i guess, but, do it on something that sucks, like, i don't know, Anne Murray?
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Tue, June 2, 2009 - 9:54 PMooooh, you don't record over the Talking Heads with AM Gold... -
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Thu, August 6, 2009 - 2:32 PMif i where you , just hold on to the tapes till you get ahold of a new recorder. keep your eye on the thift stores.
hey anyone remember the 4 track players? my mom had one in her 64 ford ltd, anyway the 4tracks came shortly before the 8track . same size tape but the players would not interchainge
sort of like the betamax vr. VCR
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Re: Ruined Collectors Items!
Wed, August 19, 2009 - 11:34 PMI own one 4 track tape by Big Brother and the Holding Company. I found it at a trift store recently for $1.00.
I can't play it to test it, but I figured I could sell it on Ebay. -
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in myyyyyyy day...
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 6:15 PMI've still got my old 8-track player that I ripped out of my Camaro right before I shot it (the Camaro) in the gas tank. That old workhouse (the 8-track player) can still play a mean-ass Queen. Okay, it's kind of a non-sequitur, but check it out:
miccontrolblog.com/2009/07/...to-queen/
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Re: in myyyyyyy day...
Tue, August 25, 2009 - 6:25 PMah chuckster, there is an antique store in Alameda, CA on Park street, two blocks up from Julies Tea that carries a bunch of 8 tracks and players, you might be able to call them and have some stuff sent to you????? Sorry I don't have the name but I'm sure you can google it
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