Update: aight, I’m keeping it. Check out my new next gen audio rig 3000:
n0KzxU5jdAjfFDj.jpg

I cleaned it out and it seems to work fine. The drive belts seem okay: not dry, but maybe a little loose, although the BPM of the music sounds about right. I paid $50 for it.

I have no bloody idea why I’d need it or would want to keep it. I just wanted to try it out, knowing that the store’s policy is “no questions asked” if I return it within 30 days. Also, retro is fun…?🤣

kU5XN19hQfQKr2y.jpg

2EJ2RKkPMo0USUM.jpg

  • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    Honestly, same. Except I keep having to remind myself just before I buy a cassette deck that I have exactly one 30+ years old mix tape to play on it.

    I like the idea of cassettes, and the mechanics. I enjoyed listening to cassettes back in the day, but I haven’t kept the small collection (and anyway I’d cringe now at my music of that time).

    I don’t see much music available on tapes that I’d want to listen to now either, but I know in my gut that someday I’m going to buy a deck for my home stereo setup. Just because… I guess retro is fun, yeah? 😅

          • Ned@quokk.auEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            Omg Maxwell flashbacks

            I don’t know how you didn’t instantly think mixtapes when you saw it

            The painstaking hours were the point

            Journey before destination 😉

            • Ned@quokk.auEnglish
              3·
              10 days ago

              leaving typo as “Maxwell” gives a different 90s flashback coffee this time

      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        My one remaining tape is a mix I recorded in my late teens, put together to ruin other people’s parties. One or two dance songs, then a burst of death metal, then some more pop before whatever schlager or polka BS I could find in my parents’ collection. And so forth for 90 minutes.

        Unsurprisingly, nobody would let me near the stereo at parties after a while, and joke’s on me. I’m stuck with the Tape of Terror all those years later 🤣

        It might be fun to compose mix tapes again, but you’d have to find other cassette deck owners to share them with.