• Emerald@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I love cassette tapes. I bought a bible on cassette at a resale store. Great way to get cheap tapes for recording over with music

      • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I never purchased a single cassette the entire time they were popular. I would buy records and tape them ( I was a Maxell person but did have some TDK) so that I could listen in the car or in my giant boombox that had APLD which was skip to next song.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Not me, I don’t miss rewinding them shits. CDs are still good though, I still buy those because you can’t go wrong by having it on the most highly-detailed and durable medium.

        • bitchkat@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          My first CD I bought in the mid 80’s still plays fine. The selection of CDs was paltry and the only thing I could find at my parent’s town that I was remotely interested in was ZZ Top’s Eliminator.

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            3 months ago

            Haha that’s funny because I bought that ZZ Top album on cassette as a kid, one of my first music purchases.

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      3 months ago

      I’m fairly certain most people who likes vinyl is because of the collection aspect. The leaflets and photos are nice to look at while you’re listening.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      When my dad died, I told my brother, who is very difficult to deal with, to just take whatever he wanted from my dad’s vast collection of things and I’d deal with the rest. One of the things he took was an original Edison cylinder phonograph with a bunch of cylinders. I was okay with him taking it since I gave him permission, but what annoys me is that the phonograph was missing the stylus and he has never replaced it. It’s inside a wooden case with a lid, which he keeps closed, and the cylinders and the horn just sit next to it.

      Why the fuck did he take it?

      I don’t even have room for it, but if he’s not going to even display it properly, let alone get a single part that is needed for it to work, what’s the point? Just sell it if you’re not going to do anything with it.