CASSETTES

Due to a conversation between me and Jon, I was curious if anyone still has their old cassettes or the cassette player? I still have my stereo component dual cassette player, but it's packed up. I saw a small portable radio with a dual cassette player at my Sister-In-Law's home last weekend and I'm gonna talk her into giving it to me...my Dad probably still has his too. I probably have 30 - 40 cassettes packed up somewhere, but I've been thinking about the old mix-tapes that folks used to make and was also wondering if anybody on CRB has any interest in that old lost art form?

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Permalink Reply by Jon on July 22, 2011 at 5:02pm

Making mix tapes? Sure, but do that with my phone cause it's quicker and you don't have to rewind so you can get songs to start as soon as the last one stops. It was fun, but really time consuming.

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Permalink Reply by TageRyche on July 22, 2011 at 8:48pm

I have the cassette player that came with my stereo and the radio I have for work.

And I have my cassettes that haven't worn out still because I refuse to replace a perfectly fine copy just so I can say I upgraded.

But not the mix tapes.

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Permalink Reply by Scott on July 22, 2011 at 9:03pm

Nope... I was a Vinyl exclusive kind of guy, but... What I would do is buy 10 packs of Maxell UDXL II 90 cassettes and record albums and mix tapes.

Why 90 minutes tapes? Glad you asked... Two reasons really, because 1) I could fit a full length album, normally, on each side, and 2) Everyone knows that any cassettes longer than 90 minutes degraded quality and broke easier. OK three reasons, but I digress...

I have no idea where those tapes are now. I do recall how I labeled them though... If it was a mix tape it was always titled "Good Sh*t #X"

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Permalink Reply by Niels (Mod) on July 25, 2011 at 7:32am

Not anymore. The last tape, I mixed was probably in '93. All the tapes have been thrown out.

But back in may '80, I taped a radioshow from Radio Luxembourg, and heard two unknown bands. The one called Iron Maiden, played "Prowler" and the second one, Judas Priest played "Breaking The Law", and I ran out and bought both albums and was suddently aware of NWOBHM. I would LOVE to have that tape, because it has some value to me.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon Williams on July 25, 2011 at 7:08pm

I still have a car w/cassette and CD player, home stereo w/cassette, and boombox w/cassette, for outside doing yard work, or in the shower. Still have tons of mix tapes and still enjoy listening to them today. Jon is right, they were time consuming to make, but I enjoyed being the "DJ" who rocked hard the mostest! (or so I always thought). Lots of fun...dont make em anymore though, because you cant find those Maxell blank tapes that Scott talked about. And Maxell was the best...tried other brands, but Maxell would maintain the sound quality longer than TDK, or whatever else I tried.