Update: aight, I'm keeping it. Check out my new next gen audio rig 3000:
I cleaned it out and it seems to work fine. The drive belts seem okay: not dry, but maybe a little loose, although the BPM of the music sounds about right. I paid $50 for it.
I have no bloody idea why I'd need it or would want to keep it. I just wanted to try it out, knowing that the store's policy is "no questions asked" if I return it within 30 days. Also, retro is fun...?๐คฃ
Honestly, same. Except I keep having to remind myself just before I buy a cassette deck that I have exactly one 30+ years old mix tape to play on it.
I like the idea of cassettes, and the mechanics. I enjoyed listening to cassettes back in the day, but I haven't kept the small collection (and anyway I'd cringe now at my music of that time).
I don't see much music available on tapes that I'd want to listen to now either, but I know in my gut that someday I'm going to buy a deck for my home stereo setup. Just because... I guess retro is fun, yeah? ๐
Another person just reminded me that this deck can record, so that's one load off my chest ๐ Which one tape do you have left? ๐
My one remaining tape is a mix I recorded in my late teens, put together to ruin other people's parties. One or two dance songs, then a burst of death metal, then some more pop before whatever schlager or polka BS I could find in my parents' collection. And so forth for 90 minutes.
Unsurprisingly, nobody would let me near the stereo at parties after a while, and joke's on me. I'm stuck with the Tape of Terror all those years later ๐คฃ
It might be fun to compose mix tapes again, but you'd have to find other cassette deck owners to share them with.
Did I just cross paths with the coolest person on the face of the earth? ๐คฃ
It's probably cool to read about. The people I went to school with were not amused, however ๐
Probably. But I'd sit in the corner with you, laughing my ass off.๐ค
I appreciate that ๐คฃ Weirdos stick together!
Post the mix >:)
I don't even have the tracklist anymore, and currently nothing to play it on. But keep an eye out here, one day in the distant future I might be able to post it! ๐
Hey, Amazon sells blank cassette tapes!
Just bought a five pack maxell ur 90 ๐
Omg Maxwell flashbacks
I don't know how you didn't instantly think mixtapes when you saw it
The painstaking hours were the point
Journey before destination ๐
leaving typo as "Maxwell" gives a different 90s flashback coffee this time