Music cassettes are coming Back !!

charry

charry

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Wow music cassettes are all the rage again
Does anyone still have a cassette player !!??
 

You can still buy lots of old pop music cassettes in thrift stores, so a cassette player can still be useful.

Like many people in the 1980s did, I would buy C90 recordable tapes and put my little cassette recorder next to the radio, my finger poised to press the pause button and grab a free recording of my fave tunes before the presenter interrupted the music.

The downside, though, was the eventual tendency of the tape to get chewed up inside the player. Grrr!!

There was also a campaign by record companies to convince us that we youngsters were all pirates. "Home taping is killing music — and it's illegal!" ran the slogan with the cassette morphed into a skull and crossbones design. How we laughed :ROFLMAO:
 
My old pickup came from the factory with both CD and cassette players in the radio. I use both regularly. I also have some radios in the house that will play cassettes. How else could I play my ABBA and Willie Nelson and Jane Oliver tunes? :LOL:
 
Was in Walmart the other day and noticed they had a vinyl section in the electronics area. Was sorely tempted to pic up a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall ", but The $44 price tag made me reconsider. Might break down and get it, but it's gonna take a while to wrap my head around that price.
 
Geezer Garage said:
Was in Walmart the other day and noticed they had a vinyl section in the electronics area. Was sorely tempted to pic up a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall ", but The $44 price tag made me reconsider. Might break down and get it, but it's gonna take a while to wrap my head around that price.
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Get it GG
So worth it !!
 
I'll start playing cassettes again when I decide to ride a 10 speed bicycle to work again (like I did in NYC), and stop for a hot dog and a 14 ounce fruit drink for a $1.89, at Gray's Papaya in upper Manhattan.
 
I keep hoping they will start making cassette players again. They did with record players so why not cassette.

I have some oldies I would not mind playing again. One in particular by Johnny Horton.

I have checked the pawn stores and ads on Marketplace....no cassette players for sale.
 
There was always that annoying hiss with cassettes. You could get rid of it with Dolby, but that also got rid of some of the dynamics.

I sometimes wonder why HD digital audio never caught on. Maybe it's because today's music isn't worth it.
 
Geezer Garage said:
Was in Walmart the other day and noticed they had a vinyl section in the electronics area. Was sorely tempted to pic up a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall ", but The $44 price tag made me reconsider. Might break down and get it, but it's gonna take a while to wrap my head around that price.
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You can download it onto a CD or data stick for quite a bit less. You can find it on YouTube and Spotify and a number of other platforms that allow you to download.
 
Yes, I'm aware of that, but there's just something about the ceremony of putting on a record, and enjoying the cover art, and liner notes that you just can't get any other way. Kinda like stepping in the way back machine.

Murrmurr said:
You can download it onto a CD or data stick for quite a bit less. You can find it on YouTube and Spotify and a number of other platforms that allow you to download.
 
Good. I still have a bunch of cassettes in storage. I think I threw out the eight-tracks though!
Come to think of it, I have an old stereo that plays cassettes. I like my 45's the best though!
eight tracks, cassettes, CD's, DVD's, VHF, vinyl, streaming, boggles the mind!
 
Oh, for sure. I believe that I have almost 100 cassettes. A lot of good music here: traditional country, pop, classical but no rap and no heavy metal.
 
WHY??!! A friend was just telling me she's converting her cassettes to DVD (or CDs). I meant to buy a device to do that but she warned against getting a cheap one. More than a decade ago, my husband bought me a Magnavox device that copies VHS tapes to DVD. I'm not any where near finished with that project. I have some nice cassette tapes...master mixes and other great music. Tapes can get damaged, unravel and break. I wouldn't use that media again.
 
Geezer Garage said:
Was in Walmart the other day and noticed they had a vinyl section in the electronics area. Was sorely tempted to pic up a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall ", but The $44 price tag made me reconsider. Might break down and get it, but it's gonna take a while to wrap my head around that price.
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It seems like the last 33rpm LP album I bought was $2.98.
 

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