Does Anyone Still Own Cassette Tapes

I still pick up titles of interest

 

Of course!

 

Unfortunately... yes I do.

 

Went to landfill long ago

 

Yes,still got a fair few

 

I was in a Goodwill store not long ago and found a bunch of unopened Maxell XLII tapes. Even though I have no way to use them, I couldn't resist buying them.

 

You must have a classic? I'm jealous!

 

Still haven't bothered finding a device to transfer then to files

 

I still have tons, about 60 or 70 commercial releases, hundreds of radio shows and live recordings which I need to finish transferring and hundreds more of needledrops that I will likely never play again and a stash of sealed blanks, I also have too many cassette decks, I last played a cassette on Monday or Tuesday, a pirate radio show recorded in '94 with Dolby S it sounded great, as good as the day it was recorded.

 

I think I have around 30-40, some newer, some old. A lot of obscure stuff folks on this forum would cringe at. Unfortunately my cassette deck needs servicing so not playing tapes right now. I do have an NOS Walkman I can listen to them on in a pinch...not my preferred format by a longshot but they're kinda fun.

 

Yes. Just recorded some Beatles and Howlin' Wolf to cassette and listened in my 2005 Silverado.

 

Yes, but not pre-recorded tapes. I roll my own.

 

I still have the majority of my old cassettes. Some pre-recorded albums, some needledrops,...
For some reason I recorded lots of radio shows back in the day. Also I recorded early (and terrible) demos of mine on these.
Though I doubt my cassettes had/have good sound quality, I used both Normal and Chrome (mostly Type II) on several recorders and of course the sound varies.

 

I have about 450 cassettes. Some prerecorded but must are mixed tape that friends and I made. Still using my Luxman KX102 and it sounds wonderful.

 

I listen to cassettes all the time. That's what a Dragon is for.

 

Lol! Me too, in fact I put in a vintage Autotek deck so I could play mixtapes in the Maverick

 

I was at my parents for X-mass and my Dad found a bankers box full of my old cassettes. I also found a cassette with a recording of the "band" me and my friend formed in the 80's. Mostly it was recordings of our "Eddie's Basement Tour" tour.

I'll digitize some of them but mostly they're not really worth playing at this point. Don't want to throw them away though. At least not for now.

 

I saw pre-recorded cassettes for sale in Urban Outfitters. My teenage son had no idea what it was- I explained how it worked and how it might have been one of the worst audio formats ever 9though convenient at the time)

 

Yes

 

OOOH NOOO!! "Maverick"?! "Cassettes"?! - I think I'm having a '70's bad trip flashback!!

 

The only cassettes I bother to digitize are live concert recordings that I or a friend made. Or pre-recorded cassettes that were only released on that format - I have a few, like this one called Quiet Please, There's A Lady On Stage I bought in Toronto of pianist David Ramsden with guest vocals by Jane Siberry of the old Alberta Hunter song The Love I Have For You.

 

I have a few in my old truck, it has a tape player.

 

I would have done the same thing

 

The Capital "XDR" cassettes sounded great!

 

Yes I have, no I don't play them