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Since my girlfriend brought a fantastic vinyl from James Blood Ulmer, I thought about to reactivate my good old tape deck in order to tape this rare record (Part Time loive from Montreux 1983). So I plugged it and it still works It's like a trip back into a bygone era
Of course I tried out FZ first. Is anybody still using cassettes ?

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I have some factory cassette music that has never been reissued , listen to them once in a while and the same with some vinyl on cassette, so yes once in a while.

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"I'm interested in the capitalistic way of life, and the reason I like it better than anything else I've seen so far is because competition produces results."

I had YCDTOSA Sampler on Vinyl after AUDIOCASSETES Became a Thing of the Past

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Arf you out of your fucking mind.

yes, occasionally.
and I still have stuff on mini-discs

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and I know, I think

Unfortunately there are no chromium dioxide and metal tapes available anymore. I found some "normal" cassettes today. These times are gone. Pity !

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Mini-discs ? I remember I have heard of. But that's all ... damn. Too long ago. Was ist before or after Enigma ? ...

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"Smoke the tapes?"
Hell yeah, I still rock cassettes . Before the Zappa reissues in 2012, I made vinyl dubs of essential albums like Hot Rats & Mothermania. No need for those now.
Most of the cassettes I've had since the late '80s/early '90s still play well. My GMC truck has a stock CD & cassette player, so vinyl-only releases that I buy are put to tape. Fuck listening to music through a freaking phone or an I-pud.

Some of my fave cassettes that get a lot of play and still sound awesome:
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet thru Exile On Main St.
ZZ Top's First Album
Hendrix - Winterland(Ryko), Stages box, Nine To The Universe
Beatles - White Album, Abbey Road

Back in the late '90s, a buddy of mine bought that big mail-order deal that Barfko Swill had on their cassettes where it was like most of the catalog dirt cheap. I'll have to ask him about those next time I see him, and if they've been stored well. I had all the stuff on CD at the time, but it would be interesting to check those out now.

Still do! I record on them too. Was thrilled when I learnt a few days ago of another musical hero doing the same. Go tapes!

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My girlfriend's pretty cool but she never brought home any James Blood Ulmer records.
Right on, Fritz.

not using cassettes anymore (ahh, the nostalgia...), but thanks for the james blood ulmer reminder.

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

I've got lots of old band recordings (my old bands) on cassette so about once a year I get the tape deck down from the loft and have a listen. My Aiwa deck is about 20 years old now and those heads don't half creak when they go round

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

I've got a tape system in my Lexus.

I've got homemade mix tapes going back to the '70s. Also, a shitload of Zappa shows.

I had a tapeplayer in my car, and I always had about 15 Zappa tapes in it, but I sold it in July. But I even listen to tapes at home sometimes.

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And you're gonna have to pay for it!

My transient nature has caused me to lose a lot of shit over the years. Had a lot of cassettes at one time, but they left in one of many moves after my last tape deck bit the dust.

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

Yes actually! I still have my nakamichi tape player and about 100 or so cassettes of no longer available lp's.
I've since digitized most of those cassettes.

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Good job! I'm not very handy at shit like that. I respect people who are.

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

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Yes.....

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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

If anybody with cassettes is smart they'll find blank cassettes and make back up copies twice or risk losing it all forever!

--Bat

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"In my lifetime I have met too many people who were educated beyond their intelligence."-Arthur C. Clark http://www.omsj.org/

I've still got a few concerts on cassette and taped off the radio tapes I listen to every once in a while.

And one Richard Pryor "Live on the Sunset Strip" tape.

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Happened to be rooting around through some scattered belongings when I found some cassettes that I recorded of some short stories which I read for the fun of it. Man they were boring! Not the stories themselves, but the guy reading them with such flat affect. Now I know the importance of vocal modulation instead of reading like leaving a voice mail.

Then again, perhaps I'll begin leaving more dramatic voice mails.

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I've started buying factory cassettes at second hand stores and play some of them occasionally on a pretty good RCA tape deck that I also got at a second hand store. I think I paid $20.00 for the deck and I buy the tapes 6 for a dollar at one place, 50 cents a piece at another place, and eleven for $10.00 at another place. I won't pay more than that. There are a couple used record stores in the area that sell cassettes for $3.00 each but that's too much. It's become kind of fun and it's a good way to fill some gaps in in your collection cheap especially for stuff that you probably wouldn't spring for on cd. They look kind of cool in their case on the shelf too.