re: 8-track

Don’t recall the first, but I had many Bob Seger, Van Halen, Boston, etc.

The last two I recall buying were Van Halen Women and Children First and AC/DC Back in Black.

When I bought the Van Halen 8 track, an older guy was looking at a tiny rotisserie of cassettes that the music store had on the counter. They probably had 20 to choose from. I wondered what kind of idiot would buy those.

Within months, I was bemoaning the loss of my $$ investment in 8-tracks and replacing my under-dash 8-track player with an in-dash AM/FM Cassette player. I remember one guy ran both players in his car for a while.

Not that many years later, a guy I knew got a CD player in his car. I had seen many home CD players by then, but in a car? I could not believe that it would not skip when you hit a bump.