A thread for cassettes

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

http://i.imgur.com/QPUGO.jpg

you guys i made that joke already

or are you just nostalgic

always

ill trade you a copy of the 80s fan cd single for the untidy towns 7"

i have the former and not the latter :(

man it's like I don't really care enough to argue but I do think object-relation is a real thing. I listened to a lot of music direct from iTunes to the stereo today, but the nature of the interface means it all kind of blurred together. then I listened to a couple of CDs I got in the mail and those I remembered & had a more interesting time with. Tapes are like that but more so, because they're weird and anachronous.

no I totally get you on that relationship, I shoot film and part of the reason is that I feel so much more involved w/ the process than digital

yah i guess, when iwas in america i had all my photos developed together at the end, 3 months worth, and im p clueless so only a fraction actually came out but yeah i mean digital is a totally diff experience there

one of my favorite artists ever released a tape-only album last year

still want to know who this is...

Scott Tuma

this one iirc

xpost

yah i guess, when iwas in america i had all my photos developed together at the end, 3 months worth, and im p clueless so only a fraction actually came out but yeah i mean digital is a totally diff experience there

― plax (ico), Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I develop my own film so it's kinda involved, I wonder if there's an ILM thread yet about the process of listening to music, as opposed to the listening experience itself

omg esoj that tape's title is A+++

but I mean another thing (responding more to n/a's "it is nostalgia & only that" assertion) is that cassette releases can still be small. they are not in the cycle of promotion, generally speaking. if you put out an album on CD or even LP and people get excited about it, even at a small level, it starts getting blogged & posted & so on. cassettes do get ripped & shared & reviewed but at a much smaller level; tapes in 2011 sort of allow people & scenes to not participate as intensely in the Everything Gets A Press Release historical moment we're in. Tapes don't really have "release dates" and one-sheets as far as I know, they just sort of come into existence & Night People writes a little blurb about 'em and there are only a couple hundred and then they're gone, and if people go completely nuts about one then it gets pressed on an LP a year later, but tape releases get to retain a little don't-mind-us-we're-just-fucking-around vibe that other releases kind of can't claim. imo.