threespires
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Yes, my parents had an 8-track player and by virtue of wanting to hear my music in the house, I bought a few early on by necessity. That and vinyl at the same time, but if you didn't have good equipment on the needle, doing damage to your LPs or 45s was going to be an issue and wasn't going to be something to last for enjoyment.
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It was the thing in the late 70s with me mostly, but by the early 80's, recording music on cassettes was all the rage.
The biggest complaint on the 8-track was one never could easily line up the side 1 and side 2s of a vinyl LP into the 4 sides required on that media. I recall AC/DC's Back in Black had the title song faded out and then faded back in on that 8-track. When I heard that sacrilege, I knew it was time to convert to cassettes, and just swap and share with friends (or record albums, etc.) onto that format.
The sideboard gramophone was the weapon of choice in the homes of early 70s Britain!
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Until they were usurped by the much cooler 'music centre' :-)
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