... additional stuff to this odd edition https://buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/...c_browsing_hisotry_list#group=nogroup&photo=1 May be, it`s a selfmade merch cassette from Mazda for professional sellers - there are no code on the small sides, and the long narrow front side is without any declaration, - but case is original TDK. I know another TDK "CAR" - cassette : but this fits more to the other gimmick - tapes.
I've got one or two around here, back in the 80's it was normal to have a tape in the new car that might have "stereo" demonstrations or just info on your new car. I wonder if they've become collectable?
Yea I guess, I thought the car connection would have elevated value more but not so much, they are selling for a little more now. This is on Ebay, it would have matched my old 88 Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe although I don't see the hood scoops on this car. My buddy next door had the first of this body style in town and his dad let us cruise with it for a few weeks impressing everyone. It was also the same time as Pyromania and we pretty much burned that tape out in his car.
Somewhere I have a cassette from Hertz car rental, presumably a freebie when you hired a car. There were loads of promotional cassettes in the 1980s and 90s. Back in the day we got a couple from buying biscuits. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267144468875 The eBay search showed more than I thought with nine different titles. From what I remember they only had a choice of two or three at any one time. On interest did the USA go through a phase of free CDs with Sunday Newspapers ? At one point Prince gave away his latest album as he reckoned he would get more money from the Newspaper than the Record company. https://time.com/archive/6908354/why-princes-free-cd-ploy-worked/
I got "free" CDs with something like a Mountain Dew Promotion in the early 90's, they were my first and included Metalicca Black Album and Hole, Live Through This. CDs were still very expensive in 1992 and not usually given away. I had a Russian Friend that was buying all the crappy $7 CDs and shipping them to Poland where they would resell them, it didn't matter what the content was, they just wanted CDs.
All the CDs I am thinking of were specially compiled, probably using the tracks that were cheapest to licence. Sometimes you would find some tracks were concert recordings. As for the cassettes above note that they only had ten tracks on the tape. Half a K'Tel album would be a good way of describing them.
