so me and my sister (but especially me) got into taping songs off the radio. didn’t stop doing it until 2003, tbh
was pretty exciting when you’d been waiting to catch a certain song and it came on, and you got it pretty much at the intro
also I liked taping odd tunes on the Top 40? odd tunes in the lower reaches that were outside what was normal (seriously, fuck the way the charts got made so stale)
Yeah it’s impossible to avoid tapes by DIY bands innit. I get it, they’re cheaper to make and carry to gigs etc, and I quite like how they look, but I find it very hard to deny their sound quality is probably the worst out of all of the mediums. Wish cd’s weren’t so uncool
Last tape I got was actually pc world’s when they played in cardiff just as the 'rona hit
It’s kind of a shame you don’t have an equivalent for child friendly tape recorders now (unless there is such a thing) cause they were fun to use properly but also could present you with character building existential horrors, like when it started chewing up my Rosie and Jim story tape and the familiar voices were all warped and slowed down and the tape was bleeding out the cassette
Depends on the deck and tape. Sadly there’s only one kind of tape player mechanism still In production and it’s shit. Same with tapes, they only make bare bones copies now, none of that fancy ‘metal’ type 2 stuff or whatever it was back in the day
Got a drawer with a few in, Sacred Bones send out mixes with their record club releases so those are normally good. I’ve got a usb cassette player that I use to record them so I can put them on an iPod though, which is less romantic but more convenient.
Always wish I got the stupidly limited Cape Wrath cassette that got put out while I was at a gig (Youthmovies, Death Institute in Manchester on their farewell tour) and had already all gone before I’d gotten in. Think @pichaelmarker got a copy? Good tape music, nice and crinkly sounding.
I still have some from the 80s/90s and buy them occasionally. I think the last one I bought was Deerhunter’s Double Dream of Spring. Still have a tape player.