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Letters from people who despise 8-tracks and all they stand for |
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santiago rodriguez, los angeles, ca
Email: asitango@yahoo.com l this site is a riot. what a bunch of wierdos. From:
Lulu Bagley From: james fox From:
Kevin
MacNutt I find you (sic) page extremely humorous and I guess the time was worth it if that medium is your passion, but you have to admit, anyway you slice it 8-tracks suck. As a child we only used vinyl and cassette, in fact my father purchased a stereo cassette unit in 1969. I grew up in the early 80's and people still used the things and it was a complete foreign premise to me, so I was sort of facinated (sic) and wanted one of my own. During my high school years (early 90's) I acquired several of them, mostly Centrex by Pioneer units since I had a Pioneer reciever (sic) at the time. My last one was a later Radio Shack model with Dolby. I actually (through thrift stores and friends) aquired (sic) many 8 tracks just for the novelty and at one point had close to 80. I really did not listen to them much mainly because they were so unlistenable. At the time my favorite formats were both vinyl and reel to reel (I used cassettes out of convienence (sic) for the car and bought mostly metal and chrome blanks). I eventually bought a cd burner and aquired (sic) a fairly advanced editing program, now any sort of magnetic media is really sort of useless to me now (although open reel tapes are good for producing tape effects). While it is great that you pay tribute to a rather large portion of popular media, I get the feeling that you are preaching that 8-tracks are be all end all to music listening. No magnetic medium is a good medium with todays (sic) technology. All tape degrades over time just from sitting on the shelf (8-tracks being the worst since I believe the lubricating compound on the tape is actually corosive (sic) to the tape itself), and as a lover of older music, digital media is a God send and a new way of preserving. All but the best formats (open reel running at 7.5 ips or faster) of magnetic media sounds horrible. Trust me, I am transferring alot (sic) of my music on to disc and prefer to only transfer vinyl since I find tape hiss more unbearable than any surface noise or pop and crackle a record may offer up. Out of all my 8 tracks, only one made it to cd (James Gang Thirds), everything else was replaced by new copies. While I think it is an insane hobby in this day and age, I am thankful for people like you. I sold all my tapes and machine for about $60; more than I ever paid for all my 8-track machines (and I had about ten of them) and tapes combined. why are you people obsessed with shitty technology that died over 20 years ago. youre like those gen x kids who like old shit just to be cool. get a life losers steve minner sjm002@mcdaniel.edu |
i think your website is a total waste of space and I dont think i'll ever get the 5 minutes i spent looking at it back in my life. you guys are losers get a life -- Anonymous Justin Frim You guys are scaring me. This site reminds me of stoned hippies. But I digress... I'm 21... born in late 1980. I'm a child of the 80's, so I'm old enough to know about the "audiophile era" yet young enough to appreciate new technology. I am also a big-time electronic junk collector, and I own 5 8-track machines, 3 of which can record. However, as cool as the medium may have been in it's time (it's quite amusing to watch one of these machines operate), it was lousy engineering. Not only that, but companies didn't care much about 8-track and so crap quality control and poor manufacturing just made the format even worse. The tapes sound like crap. And their lifespan is even worse than a 78 RPM shellac record! It's one thing to collect dead technology for the purpose of just having it... to remember it... to gaze and wonder at it's operation. But to try to keep 8-tracks for serious music enjoyment, that's just rediculous (sic). Go out and buy your music on CD. It's got nothing to do with consumers being pushed by corporations... it has to do with corporations offering new releases that sound closer to the original studio masters than the releases the corporations offered 30 years ago on lousy media. And if you really can't afford CDs and you have ethical problems with copying copyright protected CDs, go ahead and keep your 8-track players running so you can play your tapes one last time and dub them to CD-Rs to preserve the music. Then buy a museum display case for them. And when the last of your tapes have been copied, throw the player into that display case too. But do NOT go out actively searching for more music on 8-track tapes, or replace your existing dead ones!! You're wasting your time! A CD at a pawn shop or used music store won't cost much more than an old tape, and it will last virtually forever and sound a million times better! Besides, there will be much more selection, and you won't have to worry about driving far away to get your music or paying high shipping costs for a piece of junk! (And almost every CD player has random access (with more than just 4 locations dropped anywhere into a song!), and endless repeat!) A website about 8-tracks, how they work, the technology behind them, and the life story is one thing. A website encouraging 8-track use for serious music enjoyment is another. I think you guys should put down the hash pipe, wake up, and smell the silicon. 8-track is dead, and it's not worth acquiring more equipment or tapes. If the poor sound quality of 8-track doesn't bother you, then you're already tone-deaf and you have no need for music in your life anyways. -- Justin Frim Technical Assistant, SIREQ-TD Project jfrim@idirect.com From: Becky From: "Rahish" <roundhead@cableinet.co.uk> John Russell jorl@netzero.net From: fam - ajmayer ajvenom@prairie.lakes.com
Wow! You are the biggest "A**HOLE" that I've come across! A few stiff twists will pull that stick out of your a**. P.S. Even Streaming Realaudio clips are of a higher sound quality than the 8-track tape! mike@GURRY.COM Vance A. Dyer" vanandjudy@mindspring.com
Sender: "Joe Fernandez" orders@meditechintl.com
Sincerely, FROM: Mark Greenspun" intercoman@netzero.net
I had the unfortunate experience of having your WORTHLESS and IDIOTIC web-page come up on my Prolaunch web system. I have taken the opportunity to complain to Prolaunch for this. Of all the web-pages I have ever seen in my life, yours is the most unworthy I have come across. The absolute worst sounding music reproductions in audiofile history is the 8 track tape. Why waste your time and mine even mentioning it. 8 TRACK TAPES DIRECTLY INSULT MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. And your website should be banished. At least I can try to have Prolaunch remove you from their system. Get lost you stupid backward and tone-deaf 8 track idiots! Get a life! And get off the web! In essence you people are promoting SHITTY sound. How can anyone promote crap? You people are an insult! "Mark Greenspun" <intercoman@netzero.net> From: Roygus@aol.com emily, the stupid 13 year old you guys critisized
From: Scott DeWolf scottd@edtech.com
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