Remember cassette tapes?
By hopefoo
@hopefoo (1145)
Malaysia
January 31, 2007 11:55pm CST
While searching through my cupboard, I found 12 cassette tapes in this room. They are NKOTB's christmas album, tommy page's paintings in my mind, robert miles' children amongst others. The cassettes were covered with a layer of dust. I haven't seen them in ages let alone hear them. I am pretty sure I have more in the house since I've always been a fan of buying cassettes when i was younger and I don't remember throwing them away. Since CDs, I don't think anyone uses cassettes anymore, atleast not here. It's amazing how things tend to add up. What about you? Got any cassettes or anything obsolete lying around?
8 people like this
55 responses
@tlex107250 (667)
• United States
1 Feb 07
I don't have any cassette tapes laying around anymore, I lost my record collection, and cassette tapes in a flodd. But how about this, do you remember 8 track tapes, 45 rpm records, 33 1/3 rpm records, or even the old 78 rpm records?
2 people like this
@lossforredwords (3620)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
yeah i still have my cassete tapes. i begin to buy tapes when i was in high school since cd's here in the philippines are so expensive. then when i got to college im off to tape and got into cds.
but i defitely will not throw all my old tapes it means alot to me plus i love all the bands i got.
1 person likes this
@lossforredwords (3620)
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
oh god!!! sorry! i think its mylot's technical problem, i only respond to this discussion once..
anyway, yeah i still listen to them! and yes they are all still in a good conditon!
1 person likes this
@creativedreamweaver (7297)
• United States
1 Feb 07
We still have many cassette tapes and play them quite often, especially in the car/truck. We don't have a cd player in our vehicles, so we rely on good old fashioned cassettes. I can really tell a difference in the sound quality though. CD's are much crisper and cleaner.
1 person likes this
@cobbcountyjoe (18)
• United States
19 Nov 07
Yeah, I was just saying on another comment how I was able to buy a stereo cassette deck for my truck with auto reverse that has made listing to tapes easier. I have friends with miscle cars that will only listen to tapes from the period of their particular car.
We get new and used cassettes at The Music Locator from their list of cassetes, ... http://www.themusiclocator.com ... but they can also find cassettes that they do not have themselves from other sources.
@crystal2005 (148)
• Singapore
2 Feb 07
I still have. Those cassettes i bought long time ago when i was a little younger. Probably between age 11-15. Since CD and DVD much more easier to be used, i seldom use cassettes tape anymore. I think life expand of magnetic tape is longer than CD, even its used many times.
1 person likes this
@Toonafeesh (28)
• United States
1 Feb 07
The problem with converting them to CD is the quality is really low and takes more time than it is worth. I personally would look to download them and burn a CD instead.
@brandy1017 (25)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I definitely have cassettes laying around my house. I have Debbie Gibson, Soul Asylum, C&C Music Factory, 4 Non Blondes heh. I also still have some 45s at home. Bangles, madonna, etc... I feel like one day CDs will be out of date too.
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
2 Feb 07
i still have a bunch of cassette tapes here in the house. i kept them in a place where i feel like they are safe. most of my collections are of those from disney's since i love disney songs most of all. but when i tried to play them again last december, they don't play that nice anymore no matter how i had it cleaned. so, they will just serve as a collection for me.
1 person likes this
@kpfingaz (1027)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
2 Feb 07
Yeah I remember cassette tapes - those squared up things with the film running through them. lol.
Its kinda funny now there is cds and cassettes just look funny but I got a few. I used to buy blanks back in the day and just record songs from the radio and stuff. My father still has a whole cassette bag full of them but he never plays them cause he has a cd deck.
How about dvds? It put a nice saying out of existense - Remember "Please be kind. Rewind" - when you rented a VHS?
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I still have some cassettes laying around somewhere. Actually, I think they are in my shed in my backyard right now. LOL I have not listened to a cassette in a long time as I only listen to cds now. Cassette tapes are ancient now but am sure there are still people out there that listen to them either in their car or at home.
@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
2 Feb 07
yep. which reminds me about cars who still have cassette players in them. but usually, most vehicles use CD players already.
1 person likes this
@freak369 (5113)
• United States
2 Feb 07
A huge box of cassettes. What's makes it funny is some of them aren't labeled so when I get bored I go through the box and see what's on them. I found one from years ago with my friends and I singing to Culture Club. That is so sad to admit publiclly. I have tons of VHS and PAL format tapes from years ago too. The problem is the PAL player that I have is wired for a euro power supply, not the USA.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
1 person likes this
@hopefoo (1145)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 07
You're welcome. Culture club! I didn't listen to culture club going up, but I have some pretty old friends that i hang out with these days and they love the 80s. Songs like Jesse's Girl, Like a Virgin..they can even do Bohemian Raphsody on Karaoke. All 8 of us on stage hahaha I think we're doing it again tonight wooohooo!
@lameran (1147)
• Indonesia
2 Feb 07
In my country, there is several people still using cassete, especially the oldies2 songs that hear by peoples arround 60 years old.
some of their songs still not mastered or they can't find the cds version, so they still use the old cassete tapes.
wow NKOTB hehehehe didn't it the first boysband that explode internationally ?
1 person likes this
@hidinginpublic (170)
• United States
2 Feb 07
Haha! I haven't heard of Tommy Page is soooo long. I used to totally adore him. I thought that album was the best thing ever.
Yeah, there are tons of cassettes around my house too. I also have tons of VHS movies.
1 person likes this
@heaven_on_earth (43)
• India
2 Feb 07
Ya, Ive got loads of those cassettes. Not only the cassette, I've got a non working cassette player too. Its just lying around eating dust. I dont feel like throwing them away since they carry with them beautiful memories which cannot be re-created.....
@hopefoo (1145)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 07
I have a cassette player too. It comes with the mini hi-fi hehehe. can't get rid of it. I threw the tapes out mainly because they were all moldy. The strip was all dotted with greenish little things. I don't know how to clean it, so I threw it out. Otherwise I'd be listening to NKOTB right now. Oh wait, I am. I downloaded "I'll be loving you" bwahahaha
@stateroad (730)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I remember cassette tapes and still have some. They make me feel old but I still listen to them and enjoy them. I am afraid because they are old the tape will break and then the cassette is lost forever.
@khushboo1984 (1257)
• India
2 Feb 07
I still have a walkman with me. I prefer my walkman to a cd player because I had bought that walkman with my own money. It is one of the most cherished items in my house. I have at least 50 casettes and I hear them regularly.
@magdollars23 (1684)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I dont think I have any more cassete tapes laying around anywhere because I think I got rid of them by now, but I do have VCR tapes which I consider now to be obsolete as well. I dont even think you can buy a VCR anymore, and I am pretty sure the same goes for cassete tapes.
1 person likes this
@puneetdhawan100 (165)
• India
2 Feb 07
yes i have so many cassettes lying with me and i dont listen to them but just cant dispose them off,since they are my collection from old times,i even have the ones which used to have those thick opaque plastic covers,and the transparent slim ones also.times have changed,now everyone uses cd's,actually sony has recently launched blue ray disc and there are rumours cd's will be discontinued soon as well as dvd's.
1 person likes this
@jokerinthepack (116)
• Sweden
2 Feb 07
I never used cassette tapes that much but we still have them at home and they are still in use from time to time.
1 person likes this
