[HazeyTwilight]

There's no denying that the internet, CDs and Vinyls have been dominating on how we listen to music, but is there any space left for alternative uses of listening to music?

I was talking to my mum earlier today while I was in her car and we were listening to the radio, then Dreams by Fleetwood Mac came on and we were enjoying the music, then she brought up that she used to have the actual Rumours album on a cassette tape. That got me thinking now because I remember that my parents still have albums on cassette tapes and I was just thinking that, are they entirely obsolete or they can still be relevant?

That's just one suggestion I have. Do you still have albums on cassette? Do you have any alternative method of listening to music back in the day?
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[Kiki]

I have some cassettes. My CD player can play them. Never use them anymore though as I have CDs and MP3. Both are much better for listening to music.

[bongritsu]

I actually just bought my 1st cassette today, - pic related



I kind of refuse to pay for digital copies of music and right now there is a lot of music being released physically on cassette only. Mostly this music falls in the Black metal, noise, industrial, garage rock, garage punk, dark ambient, and ritual music genres. Im pretty excited to start diving into cassettes.

also the collectors side and financial side of collecting cassettes. I got my deck for free off my grandparents and the cassettes are usually in the $4-$7 price range.

Lazerdisks, 8-tracks, tapes, reel-to-reels and other oddball music mediums will always hold a collectors value to someone, I cant really see any of them every vanishing.


To be honest the only medium of music that i could see going obsolete is digital
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I FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST AS A PERSON OF JUDGEMENT.

[Jasonconfused]

[ShaneSpear]

Didn't MGMT just release their new song on cassette during Record Store Day to be cute or something? I swear I read something about that.

[Cymro2011]

Bands can try as much as they like but cassettes are never going to make a real comeback.

[Puncture Repair]

Pick up a guitar and play it yourself, the Beck way.

[GeevyDallas]

One of my favourite albums of last year Gwilym Gold's Tender Metal was released through bronze,a program that re interprets the music in real time so you never hear the same song twice let along the same album,it's really great and addictive.

All you need to know about it is in the following link http://bronzeformat.com/

[Robert Anton Wilson]

There has been a thread like that before but yeah as long as you have the machine any music medium is still valid. The cassettes are not all that durable though because like VHS the magnetism of the recording and the resistance of the tape itself is not very long lasting even though I agree cassettes varied widely in quality and 4-track music cassettes were much more better than VHS which were themselves also much crappier than any form of beta cassette. Cassettes sucked in that finding songs was not really feasible (made your cassettes,s durability even worst) but they were great for all of the creative mix tapes that have been done through the years.

I only have a single 8-track cassette, The Beatles blue compilation album and I never listened to it in that format.



I myself pride myself of being able to listen to the song Ain't that a Shame by Pat Boone on MP3, CD, 4 tracj cassette, 33RPM, 15 RPM and 78RPM .... that last one on a gramophone of exactly that model ...

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The machine still plays perfectly and requires no electricity, only spring action. But all of the 78RPM I have have not been well protected so the sound ain't that great.

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