I finally got one in 1982 and I be damned if 8 track tapes went out of style in 1983. "Why buy something that you can make yourself?". When I got one, I made my own 8 track tapes. Once I started seeing homemade 8 track tapes, then I found out that there were some 8 track players on stereos that had a "record" button on them so I HAD to have one. Also, all home stereos (that you could afford) had 8 track players on them. I always preferred vinyl but you needed tape versions of music in order to play it in cars and all cars had 8 track players at the time. Actually, this is the only pre-recorded 8 track I ever bought. Only having an mp3 is like having a homemade cassette of an album rather than having the actual product. I'll buy something physical that I can hold in my hand but I'll never pay for something that you don't have an original product on your shelf that you can see and hold. Yes, I have thousands of them but have never bought any of them. When I got my tax refund that year, I bought a component system and a CD component and also the "Crystal Ball" CD set.
GREASE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 8 TRACK PORTABLE
Yeah, there were CD players on a few boom boxes and some tabletop stereos (but during that era, tabletop stereos were much smaller than they previously were with smaller speakers also but who wants portable shit? Hell, I've always had stereos that thumped the walls and disturbed the neighbors so I wasn't settling for that. Yes, it's late in the game but when vinyl became extinct but CD players were still too expensive, I had been buying all the releases of that era on cassette, however, "Crystal Ball" wasn't released on cassette. Other than that, I never bought pre-recorded cassette tapes until they stopped making vinyl and CD players were too expensive to purchase. When I saw the "Dirty Mind/Controversy" (2 on 1) tape in the store though, that caught my cusiousity though because I had never seen something like that before (although I already had both albums on vinyl). I found it ridiculous to buy a cassette of something when I had the capability of buying the vinyl album, recording it onto a cassette myself, and then having both the vinyl and the tape for the price of one. Prince - Dirty Mind/Controversy (2 on 1). When I bought the "Let's Work" 45 and "Ronnie Talk To Russia" was on the B Side instead of a "part 2", then I called the radio station to see where they got their long version and they told me it was a 12 Inch to which I replied. I had assumed that the radio station had edited both sides of the 45 together so they would flow into each other. When I heard the extended version on the radio, I assumed it was a "part 2" on the 45 that wasn't on the album like Rick James had done with "Super Freak" a little earlier.
This was the song that made me discover that 12 Inches existed. I think the first actual remix single I bought was Show Me by The Cover Girls.)ĬD single: Madonna ~ Justify My Love (maxi single) The President's Rap song was 3 of the skits put to music, which years later I found out were members of War)ġ2" remix: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 ~ Freedom (not really a remix, but a long version with an instrumental version on side 2. It sort of did, but it was just skits without music. Rich Little ~ The First Family Rides Again (I thought this would have President's Rap on it. LP: Michael Jackson ~ Thriller / Janet Jackson ~ Janet JacksonĬassette (all of these were from one of those Columbia House penny ads): The song was called Makin' Out and came with an issue of Mad Magazine. Technically, the first was one of those flexy-discs. I have some records before these, but they were bought for me and were mostly kiddie records and a couple of 8 track tapes.Ĥ5: Isley Brothers ~ Who Said? / Gap Band ~ Humpin' (got them at same time.
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