Sonic Youth "Dirty"

Custom made 8-track
Original CD Label: DGC
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Program One
100%, Theresa's Sound World, Drunken Butterfly, JC
Program Two
Swimsuit Issue, Shoot, Wish Fulfillment, Youth Against Facism
Program Three
Sugar Kane, Orange Rolss, Angels Spit, Chape Hill
Program Four
Nic Fit, On the Strip, Purr, Creme Brulee

Notes and 8-track by Steve Ciaffa

This 8-track was originally part of an in-store display at my friends Hoyt's record store in Santa Rosa California, The Last Record Store. When we first met in 1990 he was astounded that I had a garage full of 8-tracks (Hoyt: "why would you want to collect 8-tracks, they're crap!!?"), but he gradually came to appreciate their charms. In 1992 Hoyt asked me to do a display for him of his favorite ten albums of the year as 8-track tapes. I was honored by the invitation. I had been taping my favorite bands onto 8-tracks for a long time, but I had never gone to the extent of making them look like REAL 8-tracks. This Sonic Youth cart is my favorite of the bunch, it gets played a lot (yes, the music is on it, I listen to it more than the CD I taped it from). Other carts were of Yo La Tengo, Sugar, Beastie Boys, R.E.M., & Tom Waits, to name a few. Since then I've made many more; The Breeders, Sebadoh, the Feelies, Beck, Guided by Voices, etc. I do the titles and track info on a cheesy graphics program that came with my computer called Sierra Print Artist. The covers are Canon laser prints of the CD booklets I had made at my local copy shop. Rarely do I make more than one of each title. I really see them as kind of a tribute to the Warholian spirit of product as Art and vice versa. Kinda like my version of Brillo boxes.....
Steve Ciaffa

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