Cassettes

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I DON'T SEE ANY CASSETTES, THURSTON!

C'mon guys he tapes all of the vinyl onto cassette before he listens!

And then copies all that into his iPod, so he can be a pretentious fuck like the one interviewee in the Pitchfork article claims.

reckon Thurston can be a pretentious fuck without any of that : )

i bought a powerviolence tape in burlington vermont and record store dude told me thurston moore had bought a copy.

he's everywhere you want to be, buying everything you want to buy. usually the last copy.

If you're not checking out Marc's posting of the complete interviews he did for the Pitchfork piece, you're missing out:

http://desnoise.tumblr.com/tagged/cassettes

Cassettes are exponentially cheaper to reproduce (roughly 1/10th the cost of vinyl) and exponentially more aesthetically appealing to us than CDrs, so, after weighing our options, we made our order for 200 blank tapes and tons of blank cases. We do all our distro and design. Part of this is probably us growing up embracing punk ethics. Part of it is just the fact that we are working on a small scale right now.

he's everywhere you want to be, buying everything you want to buy. usually the last copy.

― PANZER DIVISION DEVO (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, February 22, 2010 1:15 PM (8 hours ago)

Sometimes he gets screwed, too. I heard a story about when he found some super rare Stooges record at a shop and was trying to play it cool, some fan started excitedly chatting him up. When he got to the counter to pay the fan saw what he had and made a scene, thereby alerting the clerk that maybe he should take another look at the price of that particular record. Thurston went away empty-handed.

"...and that fan's name...was Avey Tare."

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Not feeling this piece
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116282-reconsidering-the-revival-of-cassette-tape-culture/

going to read that in a little bit, but

At best, the cassette revival is merely a vacuous fad of no genuine value; but at worst, it's a confused, regressive cultural misstep more dangerous than most would care to admit.

uh

http://www.hvchronic.com/volume_2/no_1/CryingIndian.jpg

Deerhunter, so much to answer for

ya that is the dickinest review, but dude basically sets himself pretty far apart from the fun-having crowd pretty early on through the read

The signs of deliberate regression are everywhere: vinyl LPs continue to (re-)grow in popularity; micro-communities built around fan zines and basement shows continue to burgeon; lo-fi home recording remains a spirited exercise in anti-consumerist, anti-corporate production and distribution; and, most recently, the inexplicable comeback of cassette tapes has confirmed its status as veritable hipster zeitgeist. Would it be a stretch to suggest that these are, at least implicitly, hostile gestures?

the point that cassettes have been made irrelevant by cd's and mp3's in terms of sound quality and convenience is worth making, but not everyone wants to only listen to music on their computer no matter how diy that would be. it's like he's really furious about people liking something because it's nice-looking and cool.

Geez, somebody would do well to get out of their head for a bit.

Comment by jgraff — December 4, 2009 @ 9:01 am

I really doubt most of the current wave of cassette releases are *recorded* on cassette. Probably digitally recorded and only reproduced on tape.

You cynic

We rock four tracks in Como.

xp: speaking from experience, bumping digital recordings to analog mediums does improve the sound

DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS

"As we approach the end of the aughts—a decade where the fundamental way we listen to music changed"

NO IT DIDN'T

2001 - The Year Everyone's Discmans Broke

I can't wait for a MD revival (because I have a MD player on my system and it's been useless for so long...).

xpost
hahaha

as mentioned earlier in thread, dadahack are going to use the cassette format but in a revised form : http://www.outpostmedia.co.uk/dadahack/Dadahack_TAP3.pdf

is that a real thing?

i believe it will be, but yet to see it in real life.

I am going out right now to buy blank micro-cassettes to release new album on.

This was my rig when I was 12:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/169305913_89ad027265.jpg

I guess I'm a nerd because I always thought cassette computer things were so tremendously exciting.

is there a good place to get cheap cassettes either online or in los angeles? we just got a second car that has a cassette player and i'd like to stock up on some good old school shit.

1. Thrift stores
2. Garage/yard sales
3. eBay lot auctions (I got rid of most of mine years ago by selling them in parcels of 100)

that's what i was thinking...i went to amoeba and i'm kinda surprised at how expensive some of the cassettes they're selling are. $4-$6 bucks in a lot of cases.

you really only need one case per cassette

D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DAD JOKE!

You'd be surprised at what people are dumping off at thrifts and yard sales. 50 cents for a cassette of some old rap or pop or something. They don't sound too bad on mp3 if you have decent equipment, better than the vinyl sometimes. I wouldn't put it on a mixtape but just for listening around the house or blasting at a party or in the car they are fine.

"Yeah, cassettes are definitely the new vinyl these days."

cassette tapes are the new vinyl

good old thread from 2003...

:-D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYCQnSc0fO4

it actually does exist.

After all, Jahnle said, "Mp3s sound terrible anyways, so why not have something that sounds terrible that you can hold?"

Cassette tapes are back in the mix!

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-cassette-revival-20100801,0,714127.story

They still make cassettes?!?!

posting to ilx exclusively via cassette now fyi hsssssssss

http://www.hypnovision.com/images/cassette.gif

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1181

buildin' a spliff alllright

This must be the week for the newspapers to discover this trend. The Chicago Tribune had a very similar piece the other day.

in regards to cassettes being the new vinyl, I thought the whole "vinyl craze" was due to many people preferring the sonic quality of vinyl to compact disc. But the cassette craze is more a length thing? Is there a sonic element? I always hated tapes not just for the getting clogged in the spools, but the fact that everyone of mine got 'dropout effect' after I played them enough.

I have a truckload of cassettes from the 90s but I've done replaced em all.

he's great in Rosemary's Baby!!

i used to be so obsessed w/ my tape player when i was young, i still kindof am, i tried making a frippertonics machine out of two cassette players once. .it only kinda worked