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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is that a yes or a signal your old enough to remember them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is that a yes or a signal your old enough to remember them

I do remember people having them. Think they were before my time.

I do have a portable CD player though. That’s more my time

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I still have some things recorded on them and every now and again transfer something to digital. I don't use it as a medium of choice though. I have lots of old albums on cassette and they are likely to be binned some time, which I find quite sad. Luke

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Is that a yes or a signal your old enough to remember them

I do remember people having them. Think they were before my time.

I do have a portable CD player though. That’s more my time

Back in the day you used to make a mix tape and give it to a girl you fancied those were the days

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

"Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

No, but I have fond memories of (and don't tell the royalties police) recording the top 40 on a Sunday evening and trying to stop the recording before the DJ started speaking at the end of each record. That was such a frustrating couple of hours every weekend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I still have some things recorded on them and every now and again transfer something to digital. I don't use it as a medium of choice though. I have lots of old albums on cassette and they are likely to be binned some time, which I find quite sad. Luke "

Don't bin them there are collectors out there who would love to give some of them a new home depending on the music, radio shows recorded on them and the type of compact cassette tape they are .

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By *atalie..Woman
over a year ago

Bolton

"Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

I raise your music cassette and come in with..I've just been going through my shed and found two eight track player's in the shape of a helmet/golf ball looking thing's

And a box of eight track tape's.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

Those kinds of taoes are now collected by people who want very Sunday night top 40 count down from the seventies and eighties in there collection .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

Remember this well

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Use the good old compact music cassette tape .?

If your a young whipper snapper look them up .

I raise your music cassette and come in with..I've just been going through my shed and found two eight track player's in the shape of a helmet/golf ball looking thing's

And a box of eight track tape's.

Certain ones of these are collected to now as well.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

Don't bin them there are collectors out there who would love to give some of them a new home depending on the music, radio shows recorded on them and the type of compact cassette tape they are ."

Where do I find these people?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not cassettes, but until recently I still used minidiscs!

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By *j123499Man
over a year ago

exeter

I haven’t forgotten having to use a pencil to wind all the tape back in

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Don't bin them there are collectors out there who would love to give some of them a new home depending on the music, radio shows recorded on them and the type of compact cassette tape they are .

Where do I find these people? "

There are some Facebook groups for people who love use and collect cassette tapes old Walkmans and boomboxes .you can sell them on ebay where there is a lot of collectors as single tapes or as a job lot .if you choose ether route they will go to someone who will give them a new home , it saves on them going to landfill .Passing some thing on to someone who wants it has a use for it instead of throwing it away is the best form of recycling for the planet you can do in my opinion .

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Not cassettes, but until recently I still used minidiscs!"

Minidiscs are highly collectable both the discs and the players .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I suspect that somewhere in my folks loft, there’s a box of C60 Sony Cassettes with a load of computer games on them for the ZX Spectrum computermabob. Classics like Atik Atak, Manic Miner, and Jet Set Willy.

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By *eductiveEyesKillerThighsWoman
over a year ago

Nowhere & Everywhere

Ebay is the place to sell cassette tapes.

Don't chuck 'em out, flog 'em!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I suspect that somewhere in my folks loft, there’s a box of C60 Sony Cassettes with a load of computer games on them for the ZX Spectrum computermabob. Classics like Atik Atak, Manic Miner, and Jet Set Willy."

There is collectors for all of the items you listed and all have some value some more than others depending on rarity .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So I do/did. I had to borrow one from a friend to play some old recorded ones I had.

Loaned to them all one Saturday d*unken night in. And found everyone on Spotify to create new digital versions.

:-So yeh, I’ve got them still but might not over get played again.

But I play my vinyls now and again.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So I do/did. I had to borrow one from a friend to play some old recorded ones I had.

Loaned to them all one Saturday d*unken night in. And found everyone on Spotify to create new digital versions.

:-So yeh, I’ve got them still but might not over get played again.

But I play my vinyls now and again.

You can always pick up a vintage boombox to play them on records are big again so is vintage HIFI equipment .

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By *ickJMan
over a year ago

Hemel Hempstead

I don't use tapes now (as a music storage/playback format, you have to agmit that they are pretty poor)

But: I did recently buy a tape deck just so I could play (and convert to digital) some 40-odd year old tapes from my family childhood.

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

I have lots of fond memories on them including family singing, chatting with the grandparents and other precious stuff like that. The problem is I know I have a small cassette player somewhere but can't find it at the moment so might have to look for another on ebay or somewhere like that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So I do/did. I had to borrow one from a friend to play some old recorded ones I had.

Loaned to them all one Saturday d*unken night in. And found everyone on Spotify to create new digital versions.

:-So yeh, I’ve got them still but might not over get played again.

But I play my vinyls now and again.

You can always pick up a vintage boombox to play them on records are big again so is vintage HIFI equipment ."

Yep. Vinyl store opened near me. A few year ago, one of the most iconic record stores in a nearby town closed its doors (we still raise a glass to it on a Friday night) that place would be raking it in now! Shame it couldn’t have had foresight, bug nobody really expected the vinyl market to become big again.

Here’s a fact. Only 4 places are still around that cut records. 1 is in Ukraine. Another in Russia.

try cutting an album right now.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I have lots of fond memories on them including family singing, chatting with the grandparents and other precious stuff like that. The problem is I know I have a small cassette player somewhere but can't find it at the moment so might have to look for another on ebay or somewhere like that. "

People use to send cassette taoe letters as well .again these are collected also because they contain a snap shot in time like a vintage paper letter does

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"So I do/did. I had to borrow one from a friend to play some old recorded ones I had.

Loaned to them all one Saturday d*unken night in. And found everyone on Spotify to create new digital versions.

:-So yeh, I’ve got them still but might not over get played again.

But I play my vinyls now and again.

You can always pick up a vintage boombox to play them on records are big again so is vintage HIFI equipment .

Here’s a fact. Only 4 places are still around that cut records. 1 is in Ukraine. Another in Russia.

try cutting an album right now.

I have a a large rock heavy metal record collection you would be shocked at what some of my collection is worth today . Rave and reggae records can demand high prices today as well as northern soul and punk .

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I don't use tapes now (as a music storage/playback format, you have to agmit that they are pretty poor)

But: I did recently buy a tape deck just so I could play (and convert to digital) some 40-odd year old tapes from my family childhood. "

Sound is not great but I like having a physical copy of stuff I love .

You can buy a specialist tape player off of amazon that does this if anyone is wondering how you can do this .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lots of bands are releasing new material on cassette these days!

Carl still collects them!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Lots of bands are releasing new material on cassette these days!

Carl still collects them! "

Carl has taste I like having something physical to hold onto some of the art work on vintage cassette inlay cards and album covers is top notch in its own right .

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

We still have quite a few, cassettes and records too. Just don't have anything to play them on.

Do you remember why you sometimes a pencil came in handy with a cassette?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lots of bands are releasing new material on cassette these days!

Carl still collects them!

Carl has taste I like having something physical to hold onto some of the art work on vintage cassette inlay cards and album covers is top notch in its own right ."

Taste is his middle name!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We still have quite a few, cassettes and records too. Just don't have anything to play them on.

Do you remember why you sometimes a pencil came in handy with a cassette?"

Yes I do turn the wheels to get the tape back in praying the vloody tape would still play after you had done this .

I've answered but I have a feeling i may have fallen for a joke here

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

"We still have quite a few, cassettes and records too. Just don't have anything to play them on.

Do you remember why you sometimes a pencil came in handy with a cassette?

Yes I do turn the wheels to get the tape back in praying the vloody tape would still play after you had done this .

I've answered but I have a feeling i may have fallen for a joke here

It wasn't a joke, it always seemed to be your favourite cassette too that unravelled itself.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"We still have quite a few, cassettes and records too. Just don't have anything to play them on.

Do you remember why you sometimes a pencil came in handy with a cassette?

Yes I do turn the wheels to get the tape back in praying the vloody tape would still play after you had done this .

I've answered but I have a feeling i may have fallen for a joke here

It wasn't a joke, it always seemed to be your favourite cassette too that unravelled itself. "

Yes always your go to tape when cleaning the car in my case years ago . I had a super rare bootleg tape of led zeppelin live at blue Berry Hill that my cars cassette tape deck chewed to death years ago I bid last year upto 85 pound for the tape on decogs lost out at the last to someone in America who paid more .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Yes. Northern Soul is massive round here.

I’ve got a guy keeping appetite for destruction to one side for me… trying to justify the high price for £50. Immaculate but god damn that’s a lot of cash.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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Yes. Northern Soul is massive round here.

I’ve got a guy keeping appetite for destruction to one side for me… trying to justify the high price for £50. Immaculate but god damn that’s a lot of cash. "

Is it the cover art girl on the floor leaning against the fence knickers round her ankles guns and roses was here painted on the fence , if it is I would buy it and look after it because that will only go up in value because of the limited run of that cover before it was banned .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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Yes. Northern Soul is massive round here.

I’ve got a guy keeping appetite for destruction to one side for me… trying to justify the high price for £50. Immaculate but god damn that’s a lot of cash.

Sadly no. I know that one. I want that one

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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Yes. Northern Soul is massive round here.

I’ve got a guy keeping appetite for destruction to one side for me… trying to justify the high price for £50. Immaculate but god damn that’s a lot of cash.

Sadly no. I know that one. I want that one

I'd suggest waiting for that one if you want a copy for your collection as its early and from the first and second run of that classic album if my memory serves me right . I own the t-shirt with that image on it from the first Wembley concert they did after making it big .

Paradise city is the song I want played at my funeral as I go into the flames . Take me home to the paradise city where the girls are pretty oh won't you pleaseeeeeees take me hoooooooooome .

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