![]() It’s still a common format for a lot of Middle Eastern, Indian and Asian street or folk music too, because cassettes are so cheap to reproduce.”Īnyone who remembers fumbling with a cassette deck while driving or listening as a tape unspooled and self-destructed in the tape deck … must be asking a simple question: Why? Same with jam band and Grateful Dead fans until recent years. “Fans of that music have always collected tapes. Used Records and Books in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He is a music critic and owner of John Doe Jr. “Metal and punk and noise people never stopped releasing cassettes,” says Scott Seward. There’s a sizable, and growing, subset of consumers who lust for musical objects that they can hold in their hands (and their hearts) as well as their ears. In the seamless age of digital music, when seemingly every song ever recorded is available at the stroke of a few computer keys, why would anyone revive such a clunky and outmoded physical format?īut consider: Even with the convenience and sheer abundance of music stored on MP3 files, cassettes (and vinyl) offer tangible and tactile pleasures that aren’t readily available in the digital world. ![]() Anyone who remembers fumbling with a cassette deck while driving or listening as a tape unspooled and self-destructed in the tape deck or having to insert index finger or pen into the cassette in a usually vain attempt to rewind the hopelessly twisted tape must be asking a simple question: Why?
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