"Nah, I'd let it go for $40.00 though, case and all."
"Hmm... That's too much and I don't really need another case (it'd be nice though)."
<Opens wallet and pulls out all money (possibly all I had, or maybe a five or ten slipped into my front pocket)>.
"I'll give you $26.00 for the box, final offer."







Sometimes I'd walk away from a yard sale with a box full of tapes and sometimes not. Much easier to score big as the 80's moved on.

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Hard to say "hi-fidelity" and "8-track" in the same sentence, but an effort was made...







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8-tracks were the original portable sound?...



...although the equipment to play them on often looked junky...

Not much nostalgia for 8-track, I see.




How The Car 8-Track Player Revolutionized Music Listening...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4AqLKN2p2o

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Here's a couple of items I'd never heard of...

8-track changer...




8-track porn (add audio soundtrack to your stash of Playboys/Penthouses/Hustlers)...



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My appreciation for 8-track will always run deep, but I'll stick with MP3 (burned from my CDs)...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0vy33Br_3s

One of my brothers, a few years older than me, had an 8-track in his car, bolted to the transmission/drive shaft hump under the dash. The best part was when a song would have to span tracks and fade out, the you'd hear the "click" of it changing tracks, then fade back in again. Good times :P

Yeah, the "ku-clunk" of advancing to the next track wasn't very subtle, was it?

The fade out-and-in on some songs is so burned into my memory that I still half expect it when listening to CD/MP3 (i.e. Rush's "The Camera Eye").

I'm still waiting for the digital release of the extended version of the Stones' "Beast of Burden", found only on the "Some Girls" 8-track (seen in a couple of my above pics).

So when was the last 8-track released? Less than 10 years ago...

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/07/cheap-tricks-latest-available-on-8-track.html