Octobomb: The Hissy, Clunky Rise and Fall of 8-Track Tape
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What Were They Thinking?
In the frantic quest for a handy, durable, high-fidelity tape format suitable for playing recorded music in automobiles, a consortium of top automotive and electronics manufacturers advance a revolutionary new music delivery system: the eight-track cassette. And while that sounds good on paper, eight-track tape, it turns out, sounds really bad in cars... and boats... and home stereos. Listen, laugh and learn all about it in this episode.
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