Our children will never know....

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

I have tons of cassettes.. and Yes I've done that.. But mostly just use my finger...

Oh and I don't think cassettes are out!! Lots of people still use them for home systems. A good cassette deck is a must have.. You can record sometimes two hours on a cassette.. Plus the quality of sound is just as good as a CD if you know how to record right..

 

[opera races]

I have tons of cassettes.. and Yes I've done that.. But mostly just use my finger...

Oh and I don't think cassettes are out!! Lots of people still use them for home systems. A good cassette deck is a must have.. You can record sometimes two hours on a cassette.. Plus the quality of sound is just as good as a CD if you know how to record right..

Oh, I agree!

My car radio has a cassette player (everything about my car is old/retro but that's another post altogether) ... which is how I listen to CD's I use one of those "car kits". In-dash CD players in cars still kinda freak me out lol or I find them unreliable. Anyway, there's still times when I'll grab some cassettes for the car. I also have a few things on cassettes I don't have on vinyl or CD.

Almost all my home and portable audio can play cassettes (and record) and I'm hanging on to them as long as they work. When I see a portable or compact audio unit without a cassette player I kinda go although I guess that's the norm now.

 

[Slick]

Thanks, but you can keep the tapes mister. For the life of me, I can't work up the slightest bit of nostalgia for tapes. Or as my French acquaintances would say, "cassettes". Flimsy little nubbers, heh heh, god bless'em. To all the girls I've loved before, I hope you're still enjoying my mix-tapes, but I recall ALL to well the time spent with paste, scissors and Scotch Tape trying to tape tapes back together. Then there was the day I had a whole box of my favorite tapes warp when I left them on the heater. Hell it took 5 minutes to FF to your favorite song. I never COULD figure out what was so fast about fast forward. Half the time the cheap tape player mama bought you made spaghetti out of the reel. Yeah yeah yeah, no no no.

 

[Lynch]

I still have a few hundred of my purchased, album-releases on cassette. The number of compilation tapes I made? Gah, probably half of that.

 

[That 70s Guy]

I also hated cassettes,there was a couple of years between LPs and CDs when I actually bought them, I must have bought the Destroyer 10 times cos it would either tangle,break or just wear out,don't miss them at all.

As soon as I switched to CDS, my tape collection was sold at a used stuff store for $50

 

[architect]

I have so many cassettes. I started collecting tapes in the mid 80's. So when i finally had a decent size collection, cds started to come out so I had to buy everything on cd then. And I still have all the mix tapes I made by recording stuff off the radio. I used to keep a blank tape in the tape deck and hit record when a song I wanted came on. Poor man's downloading

CDs were a revelation. All that wasted time spent fast forwarding to the next song! No more!
And now that i'm older i want everything on Vinyl, so i have lots of stuff on all formats three times over!

 

[Lynch]

I still have all the mix tapes I made by recording stuff off the radio. I used to keep a blank tape in the tape deck and hit record when a song I wanted came on. Poor man's downloading

I did that as well, quite a bit. But I also owned a decent amount of vinyl and a lot of cassettes (with a dual deck) so I made a lot of mix tapes that was as well

And now that i'm older i want everything on Vinyl

why? miss the old crackles, pops and skips?

 

[Red Neck]

When we moved house five years ago I found a carrier bag full of tapes in the loft. I knew they were there, but hadn't played them for years, since I prefered to rip and burn compilation discs. I've been going through them recently, and it's been great rediscovering them, it's like owning a new music collection. Some are studio tapes, but most of them are mix or live tapes recorded from the radio, so I've forgotten the track listings. After checking the dates, some are over TWENTY-FIVE years old.

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

I know this is a issue with a valid excuse but CD players can also be a pain.. The lasers wear out and then you got the constant skipping or it not tracking certain Cd brands.. I have that problem with both of my CD players and they were not cheap.. Store bought CD work fine, but burning a comp Cd has been a pain.. Plus I have received CD's from friends who burned me something in MP3 format and those won't play in your car or home system.
I don't fuss over fast forwarding tapes.. If it's a comp I made, I let it play all the way through....

 

[JerseyGirl]

I have a very large box full of cassette tapes. I haven't gone through them in a long time though. I'm sure there are a few gems in there that I forgot all about.