Pretty good way of looking at it.
Biggest problem with 8-tracks was that weird pause that would hit in the middle of the song, often right in the middle of the awesome guitar solo! Look at that label - Not once, but 3 times a song gets interrupted! "Dark Side of the Moon" on 8 track would have convinced me to switch my car stereo out to cassette ASAP!
That was the night you got too damn high. You were listening to the Kentucky Headhunters.
She told me that she got a little more than that. She used the money to buy her first MAGA hat.
Ironically, I never had an 8 track in my youth. I got my first portable music device (after transistor radio) for Christmas in 1968. It was a record player/radio combo kind of like this one:
When cassette decks became affordable I skipped 8 tracks altogether and went straight to cassettes. I got my first stereo tape deck in 1972 (bought used for $25 at a flea market). I still bought vinyl albums, though, and made my own cassettes by recording straight across the air through the twin microphones.
