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21 hours ago by tone

Cheap Trick are as irrelevant as the 8-track tape. Many groups have once again embraced vinyl records, but the 8-track machines sounded the death knell at the height of Cheap Trick’s apex of fame in the late 70’s. The Dream Police brigade are releasing their new album called, The Latest, and the mus ...

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5 days ago by dlpeterkin

Like much of the rest of the world — or at least that segment of it that cares about such things — I was shocked by the unexpected death of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, last week. News of the passing of Farrah Fawcett saddened me as well. (The Pinup of My Generation had the misfortune of crossi ...

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6 days ago by famicoman

So for $5, I was able to nab a boxed (though used) Stereo 8 player. Not a common purchase I know, but it is bound to get at least some use as a stereo component. The Box, weighing about 7 pounds while full Eight-tracks, for those who don’t know, were once the reigning format for portable music, late ...

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21 days ago by Lauren

"I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person." That SERIOUSLY was said on a Windows commercial that I just saw on TV. Wow...see for yourself. PCs are the 8-tracks of our generation.

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28 days ago by Jon Austin

Being an old guy has very few advantages as far as I can tell, but one is the perspective of time. In my 50 years I have seen more technologies than I can remember arrive with the herald of great expectations only to expire with a whimper. CB radios 8-track cassettes Cassettes Film VCRs Floppy disks ...

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32 days ago by admin

Trackers of the world, unite! Cheap Trick will be releasing their brand new album, The Latest, on 8-track tape. No I am not joking, the format either you left for dead in the late 70’s or saw in your grandma’s closet (you know who you are) has always been loved by 8-track fiends, and it seems the ba ...

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32 days ago by MoonDog

This is for my friend Lenny at Hail Mary Jane and to all of those people who told me back in the 1970’s that I’d never amount to anything if I smoked marijuana. During the decade of the 70’s, you could buy a lid of Colombian for $35.00 and giggle your ass off listening to the latest 8-track from Ric ...

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33 days ago by ryanrit

Time for another dose of yesteryear with Retro Tech Tuesday. Today's photo and article comes from the 1972 Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia. I highly recommend picking up a copy of one of these Handyman sets if you're interested in seeing some old tech, coupled with everything you need to know to b ...

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34 days ago by Ross Meyerson

Plagued by notoriously controlling record companies (see: the 80’s/early 90’s) and labels going belly up just weeks after a release (see: their highly under appreciated return to form from 1997) it’s no wonder Cheap Trick have taken matters into their own hands and are self-releasing their latest ca ...

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56 days ago by unclejay

Sometimes bad news can be good news. When? When everybody expected even worse news! Sorry, that’s about as sunny as things are going at the moment. Uncle Jay explains even the gloomiest news with a cheerful attitude that’s really annoying.

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