Re:Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year
by KozmoNau7 on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:59AM
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I grew up in the late 80s/early 90s, and my primary playback format was cassette tape, until I was around 12-13 and got my own CD player. I first listened to classic albums like Deep Purple - Machine Head and various Beatles albums on tape, so there will always be a certain nostalgia factor there. I assume a lot of other people around my age feel the same way.
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Re:Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year
by criddell on Monday January 07, 2019 @09:16AM
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Cassettes might always be around but I think the only reason they saw double digit growth is because the market is so small. However, I can't see somebody choosing cassettes (or for that matter, 8-track cartridges) as the primary format for their music collection in the same way some do with vinyl or CDs.
Re:Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued to Grow Last Year
by KozmoNau7 on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:19AM
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Oh no no, absolutely not. I only keep a handful of cassette tapes around for nostalgic reasons, and I don't have a tape deck anymore, because it seems rather pointless, as you say.
I just like to hang on to obsolete media that once meant the world to me, so I have a couple of tapes, some 3.5" floppy disks and a couple of MiniDiscs (still shrinkwrapped), purely for nostalgia and maybe one day as something to show the eventual grandkids.