Some 4 8 million vinyl albums were purchased in the uk.
Why vinyl but not 8 track.
Vinyl cassette tapes and compact discs were all continual play without interruption until you got to the end of a side.
Are 8 track tapes as bad as you think.
Continual play would be the key.
Playing an 8 track sounded clunky and it made loud pauses and clicks between tracks.
They were not ideal.
Vinyl sales grew to their highest level since the britpop era this year as consumers turned to the format during the coronavirus pandemic.
Commonly called eight track cartridge eight track tape and eight track citation needed is a magnetic tape sound recording technology that was popular in the united states from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s when the compact cassette tape which predated 8 track surpassed it in popularity for pre recorded music.
The 8 track tape formally stereo 8.