The 8-Track Museum

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/02/16/133692586/8-track-tapes-belong-in-a-museum?sc=nl&cc=mn-20110217

I was never a huge fan of 8-tracks.  I always preferred cassettes, even in the late 60's before that was popular.  But it is amusing to see any nostalgia regarding them.  And there are artists I'd always associate with 'em:  ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, etc.  and another thing - remember the trash?  You kids won't remember this, but I swear it's true. The things would break, (and they were generally used in a car), and they'd get thrown out.   EVERY single intersection in America had hundreds of yards of 8-track tape glistening away on the curbs.  Lord knows where it all went.  Probably washed down to the ocean where it's strangling dolphins in some sort of ecological imitation of the Kali cult.  We live in a strange world.