I am throwing away all my 8 track tapes

I have been hauling around some 8 track tapes since the 70's and 80's. It's what's left of a larger collection that has just vanished over the years. As I looked at them, stacked here by the pc, it's an odd group of leftovers. Some of them old favorites, others simply something I pulled from the discount bins at a music store. I have no means of playing them. Although I hate to see them go, I know that they will only sit in the basement, accumulating dust until the day when I am hauled off to the nursing home and my kids come to clean out the house. Whether it is today or years from now, the next destination for these is the landfill. So Goodbye....

Abraham Martin and John - Dion

Isle of Wight - Atlanta Pop Festival - Vol II

Road Food - The Guess Who

A Song or Two - Cashman and West

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Tapestry - Don Mc Lean

Rite of Spring - Stravinsky

Stars and Stripes Forever - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

The Best of the Newport Folk Festival

Liberty - Gene Cotton

Machine Head - Deep Purple

Untitled - Don McLean

Funny how my tastes in music today are still so similar to back then. I still listen to Pink Floyd and occasionally Deep Purple. I like story songs from people like Don McLean and American roots music from groups like the Dirt Band. I like symphonies but find them hard to listen to more than once or twice. A couple of these were played only once or twice. But they all had the honor, I think, of being played in my 1969 Ford Fairlane in high school and college. Some of them went on long road trips home from college, on dates, to and from various jobs of the young unskilled laborer. I guess I need to stop reminiscing or I won't throw them out.