Bucks Burnett, a Texas record collector, record store owner, and museum operator, died in October, 2023. Burnett was one of the early and vocal advocates of collecting music on 8-track tapes. In the early 1990s, 8-tracks were bottoming out in terms of popularity and value. Bucks was one of many who nostalgically latched onto them as collectibles. Yet Bucks became a sort of gadfly in the 8-track collecting community, preaching a message of commercialism to a group of fans who appreciated the format for other reasons. To those who hoped that used, thrift store 8-track tapes would always remain cheap and plentiful, Bucks proudly boasted that he had already sold a rare cartridge (the Sex Pistol’s God Save The Queen) for what seemed an unimaginably high price of $100 in 1992. At that time, Burnett stocked about 200 8-track tapes in a special section of his record store, and claimed that he sold about three per week.