Just lobbed out all my music cassettes and feel rather sad about it

[kittyP]

When I was going through some of my cassettes, stashed away in an old cardboard box, last year I noticed that several cases (all containing music by bands whose name began with the letter "b") had some strange crusty matter stuck to them. After some pondering, I realised that what the "crusty matter" actually was, was milky vomit ejected by my third G-dson, who stopped being bottle-fed about 15 years ago!

Sorry, Big Country, long time no listen to your cassettes!

I am very sad at my loss of cassettes after reading all this.
I never got to say goodbye

 

[kittyP]

When I hear certain songs they remind me of the mix tapes that contained them and what boy made it for me

^ This plus friends as well as boys :blush:

 

[twentythreedom]

I have 4 or 5 crates of cassettes stashed in my mum's garage. I would never, ever bin them. They are the soundtrack to my early life, the majority of them are unique compilation / dj mix / pause button specials... They just sit there passing time, gathering dust, but they are, to me, a unique slice of personal history. In the bin? No fucking way.

What would modern civilisation be like had there never been a thing called a "mix tape"?

I rest my case.

(where can I buy TDK AD90s nowadays?)

 

[twentythreedom]

What were those "Digital Compact Cassettes" I vaguely remember?

Also, I've still got boxes of DAT tapes - mostly live recordings from raves I was promoting or djing at, or masters of tunes from the studio.... Gold dust!! To me, that stuff is priceless.

I need to get a DAT player from somewhere.

 

[ethel]

i still make mix tapes! making mix cds just isn't the same

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

RIP tapes.

I had a big clear-out about a month ago. I don't even know what was on the tapes as my writing had faded with age and I had nothing to play them on to see what was on them anyway.

Chucked my tape recorder/player out at the same time that I got in the early 80s. Can't remember what was wrong with it though. Think it just stopped working or I lost the lead. I know the batteries all died, leaked and rusted in the back though.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

[
Any of you still using cassettes?

Yes.

You should have given them to me.
Im told cassettes are cool now. My record label in france did an atomic suplex tape last year that even rough trade were more than happy to take. They even mentioned that they stock a few new 8 track cartrages.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I wonder how many of us had one of these

before upgrading to bigger shinier things

or integrated turntables with built in cassette players

and then upgrading to stack systems etc.

 

[19sixtysix]

Yes.

You should have given them to me.
Im told cassettes are cool now. My record label in france did an atomic suplex tape last year that even rough trade were more than happy to take. They even mentioned that they stock a few new 8 track cartrages.

There was a band who did a wax cylinder last year.

 

[19sixtysix]

I wonder how many of us had one of these

Got one in a box somehwere

before upgrading to bigger shinier things

or integrated turntables with built in cassette players

and then upgrading to stack systems etc.

Still sitting on the self in my kitchen.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Yeah thats what mine looks like. I have a walkman too.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Got one in a box somehwere



Still sitting on the self in my kitchen.

Excellent. I really didn't want to bin mine but it hadn't been touched for decades

I've seen some old ones in the market shop up Brixton Hill but resisted

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Yeah thats what mine looks like. I have a walkman too.

I have another one, a yellow one, covered in paint. My walkman was stolen.

 

[twentythreedom]

RIP tapes.

I had a big clear-out about a month ago. I don't even know what was on the tapes as my writing had faded with age and I had nothing to play them on to see what was on them anyway.

Chucked my tape recorder/player out at the same time that I got in the early 80s. Can't remember what was wrong with it though. Think it just stopped working or I lost the lead. I know the batteries all died, leaked and rusted in the back though.

Shame on you!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Mine sounds better than the crappy portable cd player I had. I threw that away. I have it on my window sill in my work room, its easyer to just stick something on than fiddle around with itunes.

 

[Gingerman]

I wonder how many of us had one of these

before upgrading to bigger shinier things

or integrated turntables with built in cassette players

and then upgrading to stack systems etc.

Me,I chucked out a load of VHS tapes a few weeks ago,mainly porno

 

[19sixtysix]

Excellent. I really didn't want to bin mine but it hadn't been touched for decades

I've seen some old ones in the market shop up Brixton Hill but resisted

My ghetto blaster is on my kitchen shelf covered in band grafitti from my teenage years. Its used as a radio. Tape needs a belt.

I got twin cassette decks on my hi-fi as well and loads of tapes in a drawers including a C120 with John Peel playing a record at a wrong speed.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Shame on you!

It didn't work. All the batteries had leaked in the back and I couldn't find the lead. It was a weird lead and plug as well as it was bought in South East Asia. The tape spools didn't move either and the radio was just a crackle and half the aerial was missing. It was dead dead deaded!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Mine sounds better than the crappy portable cd player I had. I threw that away. I have it on my window sill in my work room, its easyer to just stick something on than fiddle around with itunes.

I've just thrown one of those out as well, a Sony one. Accidentally got dropped years ago

I think I have another one (unless I chucked it out) but I can't remember what's wrong with that one. The lid might be stuck

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I also have loads of VHS that still get plenty of use. Saw quite a few for new VHS for sale in a record shop in Tokyo yesterday

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I also have loads of VHS that still get plenty of use. Saw quite a few for new VHS for sale in a record shop in Tokyo yesterday

I've got a few but as my VCR still works, I've no need to bin them

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You can always buy new cassette players.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You can always buy new cassette players.

True, but then you can buy films on DVD and I now have a PVR, so I'd like to get rid of the tapes eventually as they hog space

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Aw, thats a shame. Also I have many rare cassettes and VHS tapes that are not on DVD.

 

[19sixtysix]

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[invisibleplanet]

Oops. I fixed that.

Also ''Dolby'', not ''Dobly'' (one of your subheads)

I still have mine, archived in three boxes. Have been contemplating throwing them away, and like you, mine stop dead in the mid-90s. Full of ancient Peel shows and compilations that were the soundtrack to my life back then. Whenever anyone made an excellent compliation, it spread through the friendship group rapidly, a virus you wanted to catch

 

[stethoscope]

This thread got me pulling out some old tapes last night - mostly pause-button pushed stuff of Peel

Amongst which was these 12 minutes of The Orb - OOBE - Peel Session 92 - those were the days

 

[Spion]

''Dobly''

/\/\/\/\/\ Spinal Tap reference

 

[invisibleplanet]

/\/\/\/\/\ Spinal Tap reference

It's early. I was on autospellpilot

 

[wayward bob]

i'm keeping all mine for knitting/weaving purposes