Does anyone still use cassettes?
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- 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.
- nicole_marie0
my first cassette was Prince, and it was good.
- canuck0
I used cassettes in the Olds up until I sold it 2 year ago.
- sherm0
My first cassette was "My name is DNice" by D-Nice, followed by "Bacdafucup" by Onyx. Good times!
- 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.
- 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?
- sherm0
it doesn't get any more inorganically granular than 1s and 0s.
- duckofrubber0
For all your old-school techno mixtape needs:
- 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.
- 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.…
- 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.
- janne760
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- duckofrubber0
rock.
- 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.
- utopian0
What is a cassette, please discuss...
- sherm0
I have a dual cassette deck at home, you know... just in case, someone wants to hear a tape. part of my multi-unit stereo system.
- acescence0
i use them when i rip old ones i find to digital, but that's it. i still have this badass old nakamichi deck that sounds amazing.
- mikotondria30
I don't miss cassettes.
They were shit. Hissy, wobbly, prone to breakage, stretch and dropouts - that stomach churning moment when you hear the eq drop, the music warble to a halt, when the tape wraps itself around the little spindle wheel, and is probably fucked. Digitise all your cassettes, then burn them and the machines you played them on.
Slow, dirty, grainy sub-par analog sketches of music, with none of the redeeming analog features of vinyl. One of the worst formats ever, hopefully gone for good.
- killthefish0
I use them all the time.