cassettes?

[charles]

how do you feel about them? do you buy them? do you even have something that plays them?

also, where can I get them made? I can't find a decent place online.

[sonidero]

http://www.pro-tape.com/Store/pc/home.asp

[sonidero]

They are down the street and I can get tons of tape... Are far as where to "get them made" you could send them digi files and they'll make tapes...

[Mudfuzz]

how do you feel about them? do you buy them? do you even have something that plays them?

I feel meh about them.
no really
yes.

[rustywire]

Never stopped buying/making and listening to tapes. I like their sound better than CDs and have decks that range from $20 walkman to $1200 tascam workhorses.

Even ripped a bunch to 24/96 flac that destroy their CD counterparts (Nirvana - Incesticide & Nas - Illmatic are the first that come to mind)

The tapes I make are special and require play from front to back, no fastforwarding, no rewinding.

Good times.

[Achtane]

I use a cassette deck as a looper in my amp setup, but I don't listen to actual albums on tape very often, mostly just when I'm working on something in the garage.

[GardenoftheDead]

I don't really understand their continued persistence.

[foomanfat]

I *don't understand the whole cassette revival that's trying to happen. (Though I am a willing participant in the vinyl version.)

[rustywire]

I don't really understand their continued persistence.

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[Mudfuzz]

I don't really understand their continued persistence.

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[kaboom]

I like tapes. I like the shitty sound, and i like how they degrade the more you play them. I have a tape player in my car, and it gets plenty of use.

[The4455]

I buy cassettes pretty often, I own a dual cassette deck for my stereo. There's a re-sale store that sells them for 5 for a $1, usually there is some odd stuff too. I have a cassette of communist party folk songs, even at record stores I buy cassettes, they are always cheaper than their vinyl counterpart. Also it's kinda hard to fuck up a cassette, it's easy to fuck up vinyl. Cassettes, not so much. Also for some music I like to listen to it on cassette, Depeche Mode, INXS, Front242. I was given a cassette by a band I recorded as a promotional thing. They had made 500 cassette singles, I have 35/500.

[Quiet Things]

I have literally hundreds of cassettes, though most of them are not music related at all. I scour thrift stores and have a friend who works for a junk removal company, with the goal of acquiring weird tapes for sampling purposes. A large amount of what I've got at this point are religious propaganda of one variety or another, but there's tons of interesting stuff in between the cracks. Highlights include:

-A two hour sermon on witchcraft and demonic posession
-An audio diary from a law-school attendee heroin addict in 1979
-A few hilarious/weird incoming message answering machine tapes
-A 'teach your self to write better via hypnosis' thing that has some amazing verbage in it

Completely off topic from the actual point though, I suppose.

As far as for 'standard' use, I don't generally listen to anything on tape, and think the revival is a little silly at the end of the day. The only place where it makes any sense to me is in the noise scene where there's always been the ethos of using broken/low-grade stuff that no one else wants.

[penelope tree]

How many people use tapes now? I wonder whether the revival has acquired any momentum. .

I would quite like to get a cassette player for my hi-fi, has anyone got any recommendations?

[D.o.S.]

I like tapes, but I never stopped listening to them. I used to buy them instead of CDs because they were way cheaper in the early 00's and albums were still going out on it. I'll buy them now but I prefer CD's.