What’s most surprising now is that eight-track tapes were even still available at all by New Year’s Day, 1982 — or that eight-tracks were ever considered “venerable” in the first place. Nonetheless, plenty of good quaint context in this journalistically written college feature: Bow Wow Wow, R.O.I.R., Walkmen, “ghetto blasters,” smaller cars… Plus I like how the main headline (if not subhead) would never not be timely, at pretty much any moment since. Just doing my part to kill music!
Columbia Missourian, 1 January 1982
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