Your albums were at home. Your tapes could go anywhere. Yes, they were not always the best quality. They were front line musical soldiers. You could play them at the beach. You could play them in the car. Also, you could legally tape off the air. This was decades before Napster, when the Internet was some research project that almost nobody knew about. The local radio station even played whole albums and people would tape them before the suits finally got wise to what was happening--then they played sides which was still pretty cool. Yeah. Recorded off the air, and I can hear the audiophiles sneering. Go strangle yourselves with a "warm cable". It was good enough. It got the job done. This guy invented the technology that drove our youth. RIP.
Let's appreciate what cassettes were (Score:2)
Your albums were at home. Your tapes could go anywhere. Yes, they were not always the best quality. They were front line musical soldiers. You could play them at the beach. You could play them in the car. Also, you could legally tape off the air. This was decades before Napster, when the Internet was some research project that almost nobody knew about. The local radio station even played whole albums and people would tape them before the suits finally got wise to what was happening--then they played sides which was still pretty cool. Yeah. Recorded off the air, and I can hear the audiophiles sneering. Go strangle yourselves with a "warm cable". It was good enough. It got the job done. This guy invented the technology that drove our youth. RIP.
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Ever have a cassette decide to despool while it’s in your car’s deck? Not fun.
On a side note - my iPad keeps trying to change “despool” to “Deadpool”.