Why the music cassette has never died
 

I was in Africa last Feb and cassette tapes are still going strong.
It was such a nice sight to walk into any music store and see a tape section.
Hundreds of them!

I also walked into a hardware store that had a wall of brand new old school ghettoblasters.
Still regret I didn't get the one with a double deck and fake wood laminate.

So Africa is really a worm hole to the 80s/early 90s? I agree, definitely should have picked that ghettoblaster up. Not surprised really, obviously no format truly dies.

i love the cassete sound, love how compact they are. and i love that you can find them cheap as hell.

i just don't use them very often because well, skipping and repeating tracks is a pain

I loved cassette tapes.

cassettes stay true to the way you're supposed to hear music. start to finish

...and also vynil.

Vinyl?

you can skip tracks..........easily.


but fuck this beginning to end shit, listen however you want, besides only like 2% of albums benefit from being listened to beginning to end

yes!

there is a place in vancouver that does them wholesale so needless to say its very popular with all the musicians. i bought a bunch for our own release. painted them all pink.

I listen to Replacements' Let it Be on cassette in the car fairly often. Same goes for Misfits' Earth AD and Legacy of Brutality.

cassettes are awesome

my brother went to syria recently and he picked up some tapes of syrian music for me there

What the...? : o

"Time reports that for a new edition, the dictionary is cutting the beloved term along with words like “brabble” and “growlery.”" :confused:

Luv that! :p

Ban also the term "cuneiform script" whydontcha - who could possibly want to know about that, right? Fucking idiots.

I now vow to use the word "brabble" more in my daily life.

Actually, the definition IS my daily life.

Verb – “To quarrel about trifles; esp. to quarrel noisily, brawl, squabble”