By the way, I promised someone on here I would post my tape collection when I had most of it in one place again.
Here you go, you know who you are.
Here you go, you know who you are.
@Indigo I never owned a Cadette 
@icedquinn They haven't come into vogue the same way as vinyl has, but they have a certain appeal to them.
Half of mine are taped from records or the radio anyway.
Half of mine are taped from records or the radio anyway.
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@Indigo @icedquinn I think the appeal of casette tapes was recording them over the radio.
@Indigo @icedquinn My only experience with them was in cars because portable CD players and later MP3 players replaced them.
I'm more interested in cassettes as a storage medium. A lot of early home computers and even video game consoles used them. If you have one of those cassette adapters, it's possible to use a phone, laptop, or MP3 player to load software that way. I also heard that in Europe people would actually broadcast PC games over the radio where you could record the data on a cassette. I could imagine someone randomly tuning in only to hear the ear rape coming from the tape data.
Plus they kept better, there wasn't a risk of "playing them to death" on turntables with tracking forces too high, and they were more feasible to play in your car.
Nowadays it's mostly an A E S T H E T I C thing.