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jackhammer · 09-14-2008, 01:23 PM

#80. Cassettes.

Yes indeed. The humble cassette. Up until the mid 90's this was the CD-R of it's day. This was the only way us 'oldies' could get hold of your mates latest LP without buying it. You could try and win a girls heart by doing a compilation for her AND you could write the tracklisting and a little message on the inlay card. You could record The John Peel Show with your finger hovering over the pause button to not get any chit chat in there but then spending the next five years desperately trying to find out who the hell is that cool track half way on side A (it was 'The Cranes' incidentally). I still have a lot of cassettes around with personal compilations on and they were the lifeblood of the music fan in the 80's. Sometimes a CD seems less personal somehow...

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	#80. Cassettes. Yes indeed. The humble cassette. Up until the mid 90's this was the CD-R of it's day. This was the only way us 'oldies' could get hold of your mates latest LP without buying it. You could try and win a girls heart by doing a compilation for her AND you could write the tracklisting and a little message on the inlay card. You could record The John Peel Show with your finger hovering over the pause button to not get any chit chat in there but then spending the next five years desperately trying to find out who the hell is that cool track half way on side A (it was 'The Cranes' incidentally). I still have a lot of cassettes around with personal compilations on and they were the lifeblood of the music fan in the 80's. Sometimes a CD seems less personal somehow... __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”