"Quality that is unique"...I like that, JB. Mind if I call you "JB"?

Steely Dan wrote a song about it, no?

I know it's called that, the mistitling is just a force of habit.

Kind of a random thing to call me out for though, no?

i bought a cassette deck for mixtapes/recording a few months ago, but i haven't bought a cassette in ages. i'm not sure if i'm feeling enough nostalgia to start collecting.

however, i did enjoy laughing at everyone on the bus in middle school with their fancy sony walkman CD players with rubber bands holding everything together. my walkman cassette player seemed to crap out a lot less and was much more simpler/portable.

you should buy http://www.westernunconscious.com/ stuff :).

Oh it's on now! Soulseek time!! Haha.

wasn't that this one?

Steely Dan's, "Bodhisattva"
Misheard Lyrics:

Bratislava
Original Lyrics:

Bodhisattva
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia

come on, dude ... :)

used, for 65 EUR, which is a great bargain.
Yamaha KX 393.

I have a Yamaha receiver and CD player, so this is going to be a match.

I just picked up a large garbage bag full of my old tapes.

it was years before I switched to CD's.

that said, I have no way of playing tapes anymore.

:(

flotto:

i have an old walkman cluttering a drawer in my apartment.

it's wonderful sound! i'll sell it to you for $500 worth of gold bullion.

it's, you know, vintage.

that's why I liked the concept of minidiscs, and I wish they had stayed popular, over cd's. Small and all that.

flots inherited a high end vintage walkman from japan in my wares, when our files mingled.

http://www.walkmancentral.com/products/wm-r707

it was a JOKE!

and apparently google says one sold on ebay for like $500, sweet.

yes, but isn't gansta rap meant to be shared?

walkmen are so...personal.

you know you want to hear me rhyme along to some Compton's Most Wanted.

I've been pretty much listening to cassettes for the past 6 weeks while I'm in a crappy temp apt while they do work on my bldg - my stereo is all packed away as is my hard drive, so I've been listening to cassettes on a boom box. The very first live tape I ever got, a Doors show from 66 at the matrix, doesn't sound any better but the tape still plays fine nearly 30 years later. The boom box speakers are fried, so I need to buy a new one, but I'm not even sure they make these anymore. The Cd player doesn't work too well and the antenna is broken off.

And I dug out several older Thurston nonSY ensembles from the 90's on cassette I hadn't listened to in awhile because they were from digital sources and I never copied them to CDR, hoping to find original digital sources. That didn't happen so I guess I have a project once I get my stereo set back up.

Cassettes are better in one way than digital because you press play, and it plays. With digital you have to go through a painful loading procedure.

In general, I just feel more inclined to purchase music on cassette than on any other format. Being portable and not easy to just download and hit "burn" makes it very desirable... I'd LOVE to get some techno on cassettes... if anyone has any they want to sell me, hit me up.. I know Ceephax Acid Crew release toms of shit on cassette.. rules.

I have some local dubstep and ghost house mixes on tape, adam. if i can find them(i just fucking moved), i'd be willing to send them to you for a trade or a few sexual favors or something.

Might be interested in the future, hayden, thanks. A bit busy with moving some stuff myself at the moment.

It's absolutely fucking awful that moving business.

anyways, to the subject at hand, i've always had a thing for tapes. My collection consists mostly of old punk tapes, harsh noise, and lots of them from not not fun. Tapes have so much more to offer as far as art space is concerned. I've gotten tapes in wooden boxes built for them and shit. when I buy cds I get liner notes. big fucking woop