Cassette tapes are redundant who publishes new music on tapes? Oh wait you're probably one of those people that doesn't like new music and prefers "le good ol' music"

its not that i make a conscious effort to buy older music over newer music. i just buy music that happens to be older. i dont keep up with a lot of newer artists. one of the newest albums ive purchased was le cassette's left to our own devices which was only released in 2011 on the digital and vinyl platforms, nothing else. i also enjoy queens of the stoneage, radiohead, nine inch nails which are more or less modern artists. low roar, starsailor, woodkid.

i dont get what your deal is. whatever problem you have with me seems pretty fucking childish and i wish youd get over it.

Is this 1985

I just wish you would admit that you want it because it's vintage and you think it's cool.

Trying to make a case for cassette tapes when their clearly obsolete is ridiculous.

Go buy an old pioneer mp3 player with the clicky buttons.

i have already admitted that

there just happen to be other reasons, too

a single album on tape is a dollar. a single album on cd is 20. i put out 100 dollars on a walkman, i'm making my money's worth after 4 or 5 tapes.

mp3 players don't have the storage capacity i need, and a lot of my music isn't digital.

and I hate to break it to you but even if you carry a backpack full of tapes you don't get near 8gb worth of music.

yeah i understand that

but if i can't carry my entire collection on an mp3 player with functioning album artwork and file names then it isn't worth the hassle

it took me like 12 hours to organise my entire music library on itunes, and that was before this summer (i've probably acquired 40+ CDs since then)

there's liberation in restriction. i have to be picky about what albums i choose to listen to. back in the day, youd listen to an album over and over again because you only had a finite anount of money and whatever you spent it on, you wanted to get its worth. so you'd listen to an album dozens of times, over and over again. because theres nothing else for you to do. at that point you really start to understand what the artist was trying to do.

stuff like the fragile or closer didnt sit well with me until my 6th or 7th listen.

Also if you're paying 20 dollars for a CD, especially an older one, you're getting hosed.

tell that to HMV, Amazon or any other major music distributor.

The only reason to rock cassette tapes is because it's retro and that's neat.

actually today i discovered another good reason

that they don't skip

my cd was skipping in its player today


yeah a major reason is that i love the retro aesthetic but there's other reasons too

Tapes do this awesome thing where they spit out all the film inside and ruin anything recorded on it. Plus you can definitely get an mp3 player with album artwork and proper filenames for cheap.

Also if you had just acquired all these cds, why would you switch mediums?

Plus you can definitely get an mp3 player with album artwork and proper filenames for cheap.

no you cant. i made a thread about this a few months ago and came out with nothing.

Also if you had just acquired all these cds, why would you switch mediums?

i didnt switch mediums. i collect both. my car only has a cd player, so ive always had those. and i inherited a lot of quality tapes from my dad so i just started collecting them, too.

the car im buying for winter has a tape deck too so it just makes good sense

Quote from: Dietrich Six on August 17, 2016, 02:18:30 PM

Plus you can definitely get an mp3 player with album artwork and proper filenames for cheap.

no you cant. i made a thread about this a few months ago and came out with nothing.

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Also if you had just acquired all these cds, why would you switch mediums?

i didnt switch mediums. i collect both. my car only has a cd player, so ive always had those. and i inherited a lot of quality tapes from my dad so i just started collecting them, too.

the car im buying for winter has a tape deck too so it just makes good sense

You can buy a tape deck to auxiliary jack.

You do you dude, I'm not gunna judge ya.

Cassettes are pretty nifty, if my walkman still worked I'd throw my metallica tapes in for a listen.

Are you guys high? Normal CD's are like, eight to twelve dollars.

15-20 bucks canadian

Luxury Gap by Heaven 17 - New: $16.92 + $3.49 shipping

Metal Gear Solid V Vocal Tracks - $57.32 (free shipping)

Further Down the Spiral by Nine Inch Nails - $19.26 (free shipping)

Meat is Murder by The Smiths - $15.00 (free shipping)

The 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake - $18.97 (free shipping)

Or

Ronrocco by Gustavo Santaolalla - $20.92 (free shipping)

Luxury Gap by Heaven 17 - New: $16.92 + $3.49 shipping

Metal Gear Solid V Vocal Tracks - $57.32 (free shipping)

Further Down the Spiral by Nine Inch Nails - $19.26 (free shipping)

Meat is Murder by The Smiths - $15.00 (free shipping)

The 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake - $18.97 (free shipping)

Sucks for you bro.

USA! USA! USA!

Other than the fact that they come with more content on the disc?

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on August 17, 2016, 03:45:43 PM

OST's are inflated for no valid reason, compare to a cd of baroque concertos or a large single disc collection of Chopin.

what did I just say