Tag: Art

How’s Your Collection Compare to 8-Track Collection by Jim Golden

We’ve seen a lot of music collections over the years, ranging from a couple dozen album titles arranged neatly on a shelf to 40,000 of them….everywhere. Not that having 8 track tapes on your kitchen table, in your fridge, bathroom sink, etc. is a bad thing - God knows at 8 Track Shack we’ve got music everywhere and it isn’t always neat and orderly. If you love 8 tracks and want to spruce up your walls (providing you have wall space that isn’t filled with music), photographer Jim Golden is selling prints of his work “8-Track Collection,” pictured at the […]

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An 8 Track Shack as Modern Art

A customer recently sent us a link to A Shaded View of Fashion blog that had the photo at the left of an actual 8 track shack.  Apparently the little house made of 8 track tapes by artist, Satch Hoyt, and is on display at the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Texas. Sadly, this will end a lot of long awkward conversations with our pickers, customers and acquaintances.  I have personally been asked, about a hundred times, “Why don’t you build a real 8 Track Shack out of 8 tracks?”  Some of the other folks here at 8 Track Shack […]

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