A thread for cassettes

j_u_s_t_i_n_s_m_i_t_h_1_9_8_6 at gmail dot com ?

Oh hells no! How the hell was I supposed to guess those last three numbers?

Anyhoo, if S- lives too far, I'll email you.

Nerdy lols-a-plenty here.

I'm in Australia dude, weight regardless, the size of the package would make postage astronomical.

Because Australia isn't far away enough, I am in New Zealand.

Pants on fire, dude.

You'll want to be wary of magnetic fields when mailing out cassettes these days, especially overseas. Magnetic Fields caution is just a good rule of thumb in general.

That pesky Stephin Merritt going through packages at customs!

Ok Hoos gets it.

Sorry S-. If you want, I can send you an mp3 CD as a consolation prize. Lemme know.

Fucking greedheads.

Pants on fire, dude.

-- libcrypt, Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:40 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I was on fuckin' tour in NZ, libcrypt.xls

no probs Kevin

My friend's band just released a cassette spray painted purple and yellow that comes in an envelope sealed in beeswax

c/d: indie bands releasing singles on cassettes?

so fucking precious. dud

"precious"?

blame the people buying them if it really distresses you. some bands are way more likely to sell a tape than a cd these days

I blame everybody involved

idk i found out way too late that one of my favourite albums of all time also came out on cassette w/ a second tape of bonus material that does not feature on the cd version and which i have never found on the internet. this pisses me off.

ITT people who hate fun

what is fun about me never getting to hear music that would bring me joy

???

but then i guess you own all the bootlegs

cassettes are cheap to put out & no1 buys cds so

well ppl rip cds into rar files

what do people do with the cassetes once they buy it, do they then go to the thrift store and buy a boombox

cassettes are just fun! they are kinda cute and dirty. get a tape deck they're cheap and you won't regret it, one of my favorite artists ever released a tape-only album last year and I get more pleasure out of the tape than I probably would through the laptop or on lp - it's just a different vibe, putting a tape into the deck and hitting play. I can't keep up with how much good stuff there is on tape only right now so I hear you actually but there is an upside to cassettes for me, partly nostalgia but partly I don't know just like a different sort of object-relation.

xp my CD boombox w/tape deck has been my go-to way of listening to stuff in the kitchen for 10+ years so I didn't have to re-get a tape deck

if you want ppl to listen to your music on a shitty boombox then okay I guess

xp okay that makes sense - changing the nature of your relationship to the Object - I can see the appeal in that. itunes makes it a little too easy

gf has tape player in her car, plays them there

So many people around her still have tape decks in their cars. But they're mostly after Huey Lewis and J. Geils and shit.

its easy to put out small runs & theirs a ready mkt for cassettes way more than their wld be for cd-rs ime plus it has nostalgic charms, mb, at least 4 some ppl + theirs a tactile handmade quality idk id like to put out stuff on other formats but cassettes are p practical, sort of. also i mean any cassette release also probably gets released digitally so

i have a tape deck hooked up to home home stereo, also a small tape player i bought at goodwill that i use to transfer stuff to digital if necessary

btw dayo waiting until 2k11 to castigate cassette nostalgists is cracking me up and so is tape ppl being surprised to be considered dbs by right-thinking ppl, also if anybody owns the bonus tape of blank unstaring heirs of doom pls webmail me. peace.

i am not a tape ppl ftr, i hate physical media these days by and large

what is dbs, btw my exposure to trends in the chillwaveosphere is pretty much limited to ILM, so I'm pretty behind on the nostalgia revival

also theres stuff like the tapeworm releases that try to get artists to think abt the medium itself, how that effects the listening xp, how the nature of tape plays into the way the music 'lives' thats p interesting & worthwhile

i hate all physical things, when can i leave this body and be air

this revive was prompted by a fb status that said "plus, this band will be selling singles on CASSETTES."

like, wow!

dbs stands for douchebags probably

yeah idk i like cassettes or the idea of cassettes but im also v tired & v sad, music has the right to its antecedents

maybe in 20 years ppl will be trading youtube links like "remember when we used to play the new cassie single off of youtube" "yeah man nothing like staring at those jpg embeds"

i have a pile of tapes that i bought back when i was making these tape experiment things in school that i've been meaning to do something w/. i got reminded when i found an mp3 of one i had made on my harddrive today. its not great.

maybe in 20 years ppl will be trading youtube links like "remember when we used to play the new cassie single off of youtube" "yeah man nothing like staring at those jpg embeds"

― dayo, Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:14 AM (3 seconds ago)

a part of me broke when they took geocities down btw

i hate all physical things, when can i leave this body and be air

why was this necessary

sorry for not having unlimited space to stuff a million chillwave tapes

uh i was not making a dig at u in any way shape or form?

ok

this reminds me of when I tried to get into vinyl, I bought a dual turntable off of craigslist and built a DIY line out thingy and hooked it up to my speakers and everything, and when I played my first LP on it (abandoned luncheonette from goodwill) it sounded like shit, so thin and scratchy, I have never set it up again, idk if my cartridge was bad or not calibrated or something, I tried looking for info online but it was a bunch of vinyl nerds talking about $500 cartridges and I gave up

anyone pretending than selling music on tapes in 2011 is about anything other than nostalgia is kidding themselves. nostalgia is a totally valid reason to do something. but that is all it is about.

and i agree with mr. steven tyler that tapes sound "great" but they ultimately only sound "great" to me because that's how i listened to music when i was 14.

you should have built a dream machine w/ it

one of the things i like abt chillwave/whinehaus/subwave is how much affection it has for the geocities aesthetic. i miss html 2.

i dont even care abt sound i mean i do but yknow i dont ~CARE~ enough to have preferences and opinions i like things tho, i like feeling connected to ppl via objects in time/space & feel good when ppl have little drawings or cards or w/e in the tapes they sell you - i always put some in mine - its v obvs or w/e of course

tapes can sound pretty nice imo

lamp you should like sell me a tape, i would have to like send you the money in cash form tho bc idk its an endless struggle

Isn't it more fun to spell out douchebags than abbreviating it?

dbs stands for douchebags

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