Does anyone still use cassettes?
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- duckofrubber0
rock.
- bulletfactory0
oddly enough I had to buy a walkman the other day so I could dump some irreplaceable cassettes to digital files. Had to go to 3 stores to find one.
- CyBrain0
The interesting thing about them was that Maxell IID was my cassette and was consistently $2 from the early 80s till the late 90s when I stopped buying them. I bet they're still $2.
http://www.maxell-usa.com/index.…
- canuck0
I used cassettes in the Olds up until I sold it 2 year ago.
- benfal990
ISSSSHHHHHHH
- lukus_W0
Cassettes are becoming fashionable .. people are releasing limited edition cassette copies of their band's latest projects. I guess it was bound to happen.
Some people are actually stating that they like cassettes for it's sound quality - which is apparently 'warm'.
I remember getting excited when cassette players learnt how to turn themselves over, and getting sad when my favourite tape was eaten.
I feel nostalgic thinking about them - but stylistic bullshit fads piss me off a bit.
- janne760
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- designbot0
That used to be one of my favorite parts of going to raves, the huge amount of kick ass mixtapes for sale that you could never find anywhere else.
- duckofrubber0
For all your old-school techno mixtape needs:
- sherm0
it doesn't get any more inorganically granular than 1s and 0s.
- designbot0
The weird thing is there hasn't really been a replacement for CD's. I mean everything is digital, which just isn't the same.
I was expecting them to have some sort of chips to store music by now....so you could go to the store and buy something tangible with cover art/book etc.
Paying to download music is lame...and why would I buy something on itunes for the same price when the music quality isn't as good as a CD and I don't get any cover art or book with it?
- dMullins0
I think my first cassette tapes were N.W.A. "Straight Outta Compton" and Guns & Roses "Use Your Illusion 1." They were Christmas presents from my estranged father, which my mother summarily trashed within moments of seeing what he had sent me. Pretty funny in retrospect.
- sherm0
My first cassette was "My name is DNice" by D-Nice, followed by "Bacdafucup" by Onyx. Good times!
- nicole_marie0
my first cassette was Prince, and it was good.
- fooler20
I also have a friend that installed an 8 tack into his car. It's even crazier what you can find on 8 track and he also bought some blank 8 tracks on Ebay so he can listen to new music he's downloaded by putting it on tape.
- sea_sea0
- http://www.qbn.com/t…version3
- was it too much for ya? LOLsea_sea
- dbloc0
YES!
- fooler20
I have 2 pretty nice cars that are both pre 2002 and they both have cassette players in the dash and CD changers in the truck.
Both CD changers are getting old and skip and malfunction all the time. Using a cassette adapter or FM transmitter for my ipod is a pain.
I found most used record shops sell used cassettes for less than 2 bucks. It's well worth it, it's way easier than burning or downloading and you can find some pretty crazy obscure stuff out there.
- dMullins0
I got this Le Tigre song called "Cry For Everything Bad That's Ever Happened" that I put on a mix-tape once. Every time I think about cassettes, it's the first song that comes to mind. Something about the song is reminiscent of that low-fi aesthetic I guess.