As a boombox collector, and with around 1000 prerecorded cassettes and a couple of hundred sealed blanks I've slowly come to the conclusion that I collect cassettes too, I haunt the thrift shops, I go to garage and yard sales and I scour the bay, sometimes it's fruitful, sometimes not.
It's a lonely life, my circle of friends have all moved on to digital formats and itunes leaving CDs, Vinyl and Cassettes behind. Tossed on the scrapheap of "old tech" like so much garbage. They tell me to "get with it man" and to "just download it off itunes", but no, I refuse to. For all sorts of reasons really, it's not that I don't understand the formats, in fact I'm pretty good with the computer, they just don't appeal as much as a tactile object I can hold and play on a big machine with flashing lights and VU's. It works for me, why do I have to change?
My only outlet is forums such as this, but many guys just use the line in for their ipod and don't want to deal with cassettes. That's understandable, yet it saddens me.
Cassettes are disappearing though, not completely, but slowly and surely the my local thrift shops are not stocking them, they toss any used blanks they get into the skip as soon as they arrive, prerecorded cassettes have to be in absolutley pristine condition before they get to the thrift shop floor, and then many titles will sit in the same box for months before they are sold. I understand the reasons, but I don't have to like it!
With all that said, I know there are people out there that do collect cassettes of all types, and would like to trade with other like minded individuals. I've scoured the internet for such a place without success, so I decided to set up a Facebook page for collectors and those that want to trade their doubles. I hope to build a community of like minded people with the focus on prerecorded trading, friendly banter and lots of visual cassette stimulation.
Please check my signature for the link.
It's a lonely life, my circle of friends have all moved on to digital formats and itunes leaving CDs, Vinyl and Cassettes behind. Tossed on the scrapheap of "old tech" like so much garbage. They tell me to "get with it man" and to "just download it off itunes", but no, I refuse to. For all sorts of reasons really, it's not that I don't understand the formats, in fact I'm pretty good with the computer, they just don't appeal as much as a tactile object I can hold and play on a big machine with flashing lights and VU's. It works for me, why do I have to change?
My only outlet is forums such as this, but many guys just use the line in for their ipod and don't want to deal with cassettes. That's understandable, yet it saddens me.
Cassettes are disappearing though, not completely, but slowly and surely the my local thrift shops are not stocking them, they toss any used blanks they get into the skip as soon as they arrive, prerecorded cassettes have to be in absolutley pristine condition before they get to the thrift shop floor, and then many titles will sit in the same box for months before they are sold. I understand the reasons, but I don't have to like it!
With all that said, I know there are people out there that do collect cassettes of all types, and would like to trade with other like minded individuals. I've scoured the internet for such a place without success, so I decided to set up a Facebook page for collectors and those that want to trade their doubles. I hope to build a community of like minded people with the focus on prerecorded trading, friendly banter and lots of visual cassette stimulation.
Please check my signature for the link.
. I buy alot of 80s tapes for Nostalia really.
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