I need help finding what this is.

Also it uses 4 AA's and drains them in a few hours and makes LOUD crinkling sounds when I turn the volume up or down.

Hello Andrew0102, it's a fairly common player we had back in the 80's. At the time General Electric was in some financial trouble so a lot of the electronic products were made overseas by other vendors. Unfortunately the battery drain is fairly common, the better radios worked magic on the players so they could do more with fewer batteries but it was a feat of engineering and likewise cost 5-10x the price of this unit. The boomboxes are worse, 8-12 batteries might last a day on the beach.

To fix the crinkling sounds we use a product called Deoxit, found in most guitar stores or amazon.com. There's two versions, regular Deoxit and FaderLube, I use Deoxit for rotary switches and FaderLube for sliding switches. An old member that was prolific in posting long descriptive tales of boombox and personal cassette players he found in Hong Kong wrote a great post on using Deoxit on audiokarma.org. Here's a link to Arkay's Post
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/the-idiots-guide-to-using-deoxit-revisited.207005/

Hope this helps!

Forgot to add, I have one of those somewhere around here....