Posts on 8-Track-Shack.com and Collecting Vintage Media
Have you ever wondered how many 8 tracks we currently have in stock at 8-Track-Shack.com? We recently passed the 60,000 mark, not including factory sealed duplicates. Below is an image of that many tapes. Each tape in the image is only 6×8 pixels. It should be noted that the image below would probably have taken ten hours to load on dial up when we started listing them over a decade ago.
Read moreHalloween is almost here and once again 8 Track Shack will be having our annual Halloween Sale. Prices will be slashed for one day only on nearly 200,000 albums, 8 track tapes, cassettes as well as antique formats like cylinder records, and we’ll have discounts on certain radios and accessories. Check out the 8 Track Shack Specials page on October 31st. This sale will be in addition to the customer loyalty discount that is automatically applied to our returning customers’ orders! We only have a few sales like this every year. Tell your friends and don’t miss out.
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Back in the day, twelve years ago when we launched 8 Track Shack, 8 track tapes had already been out of production for over twenty years. That was back in 2006, over a year before the iPhone was invented and four years before the onset of iPads and similar tablet computers….you know, back when EVERYONE had dial up internet service. Over the past 12 years, we’ve tried to keep up with the every increasing speed at which technology and the internet has evolved, and tried to maintain some form of social media presence including a blog, Myspace, Google+, Facebook, […]
Read moreThere’s a pretty good demand for “cheesecake” album covers in the vinyl record collector’s market, album covers that feature either fully nude or scantily clad models that have nothing to do with the content of the record inside. Cheesecake vinyl LP’s are pretty common with a wide range of diverse titles, but finding nudity on 8 track tape labels is a bit more difficult for a couple of reasons. First the size of the label really cuts down on what you can show in detail, and many of the “cheesecake” type covers on LP’s were produced before 8 tracks were […]
Read moreFor more than a decade, those looking to buy 8 track tapes have had a much larger choice of titles due to 8 Track Shack’s ever expanding online inventory of tapes. Before 8 Track Shack, anyone wanting 8 tracks had very few places to find them. 8-tracks had long disappeared from even the most obscure retail locations’ bargain bins and the online landscape was pretty bleak - there was eBay with only a few thousand tapes at any time and a few sad text only html and Angelfire-type free personal websites where enthusiasts mostly offered duplicate tapes for sale, along […]
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