To start- I could not foresee myself enjoying The Lettermen in any capacity, but through my mono-speaker Lloyds’s Model No. V 128, it had some repeat value. The same could be said of someone’s dub of Saturday Night Fever, with the bass jacked inconceivably high and everything else muddled. The most hep tape I have is Nina Simone’s Baltimore and James Brown’s Black Caeser. But my best is a radio air check of a Wolfman Jack show.

Haven't read the zine, just got into 8-tracks a few years ago after finding some tapes I was interested in at a thrift store. It was the last format I wouldn't fuck with, unless you count DAT. Not a serious collector by any means, only buy tapes when they appear before me and they're $1. Probably the only "cool" tapes I have are Lou Reed - Berlin, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Soundtrack.

    Bucky Bronco yeah not much in the cool department- mostly just a pile that work and the others used as doorstops, paper weights etc

        Have a pile of garbage & a few "COOLS"- Neil Young, BLOODROCK, ZZ Top
        I don't listen to them and actually hate the format but they're cool to look at I guess

        That 8 Track movie "So Wrong They're Right" is great and full of fun people

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            My dad had an 8-track player when I was growing up, but the coolest one he had was like a Dueling Banjos album. The rest was all show tunes or classical.

            I forgot these had 4 "sides"

            Uptown ruler 666 420 great documentary. Michael Hurley is prominent.

            I think the Pat Travers tape might qualify as cool… who I think of mostly as an opener for Bon Scott era AC/DC

              Wade T Oberlin 8-tracks and reel-to-reel tapes always make me listen to music I wouldn't check out otherwise, cuz the only stuff that's cheap in those formats is easy listening, showtunes, exotica, etc. But all that stuff has high production values so it all SOUNDS great even if the music itself isn't really doing anything for you! But a lot if times I find myself liking that stuff more than I thought I would. Have a bunch of rock 8-tracks, but no Dolls, Stooges, Kraftwerk, or anything mind-blowing like that. Last 8-track I scored was last weekend, and it was Gary Wright - The Dream Weaver for 99 cents!

                  Bucky Bronco it’s funny or accurate because the place I was getting so many tapes had most for under a dollar and then one Kraftwerk in the 100s. And the 8T zine goes over that. The age of getting Yoko Ono or Stooges cheap because no one wants that format ended. But so be it…