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Haha haxcharsol made like two of these topics and they both got closed due to arguments.

HotCocoa28 wrote:

banana500 wrote:

Haha haxcharsol made like two of these topics and they both got closed due to arguments.

I'll bet that'll happen again too.

Yeah, the first one got closed by a rap music discussion and the other one by COD.

Cassette tapes

banana500 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Cassette tapes

Yes.

I bought a tape deck from Fry's recently. 

The main one I have is built into my stereo, which has two—except one is dead and the other is nearly so. Luckily, I also have one in a boombox plus I have my shoebox cassette recorder and a Walkman clone which I can aux in.

luiysia wrote:

Don't cassette tapes break all the time though
and you can't fast forward through tracks
and the tape gets tangled up all the time
and the sound quality isn't as good as a record or at least a cd as well as being unwieldy
and they cost more
and take up space
and they're utterly destroyed by freaking magnets so really a small child and a refrigerator decoration is all you need to destroy a huge collection of music

My point is that some things aren't underrated, they're just not that good anyway 

Everything that was passed up or around for a brief period of time is underrated to the hipster, which we see here in its native habitat

luiysia wrote:

Don't cassette tapes break all the time though
and you can't fast forward through tracks
and the tape gets tangled up all the time
and the sound quality isn't as good as a record or at least a cd as well as being unwieldy
and they cost more
and take up space
and they're utterly destroyed by freaking magnets so really a small child and a refrigerator decoration is all you need to destroy a huge collection of music

My point is that some things aren't underrated, they're just not that good anyway 

also I forgot to mention that because of the way they're made the quality degrades really quickly so even if it wasn't bad to start with, it will be

banana500 wrote:

luiysia wrote:

luiysia wrote:

Don't cassette tapes break all the time though
and you can't fast forward through tracks
and the tape gets tangled up all the time
and the sound quality isn't as good as a record or at least a cd as well as being unwieldy
and they cost more
and take up space
and they're utterly destroyed by freaking magnets so really a small child and a refrigerator decoration is all you need to destroy a huge collection of music

My point is that some things aren't underrated, they're just not that good anyway 

also I forgot to mention that because of the way they're made the quality degrades really quickly so even if it wasn't bad to start with, it will be

I dunno, there's just some charm to them.

But who needs all that when you have iTunes. 

the charm being that they're objectively terrible, i see your point

Anyway, Mighty B! was a really good cartoon    I hope it's not officially over, I stopped getting Cartoon Network before it officially ended, so I don't really know.

veggieman001 wrote:

Cassette tapes

They had their time.

...And now they're outdated.

banana500 wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

banana500 wrote:

Yes.

I bought a tape deck from Fry's recently. 

The main one I have is built into my stereo, which has two—except one is dead and the other is nearly so. Luckily, I also have one in a boombox plus I have my shoebox cassette recorder and a Walkman clone which I can aux in.

I have so many cassette players in my house it's not even funny:

1 stereo
2 boom boxes with CD and tape
2 shoebox recorders (one doesn't work anymore)
2 Walkman clones
1 real Walkman

Yeah.

We have a Walkman.
And we still use it.
I mean, I don't. I have iTunes now. 

luiysia wrote:

Anyway, Mighty B! was a really good cartoon    I hope it's not officially over, I stopped getting Cartoon Network before it officially ended, so I don't really know.

...You do realize it was on Nickelodeon right?
It was a great show though.

To all the people with complaints about cassette tapes: yes, they are awful.

However, they provide a unique musical experience in my opinion. When listening to some albums for the first time without any sort of tracklist, e.g. albums like The Cure's Pornography, Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward, and The Jesus and Mary Chain's Darklands, there's an odd experience of a sort of musical painting creating a world of music and you really don't know what will be next. Tapes (cassettes or otherwise) are really the only format that provides the opportunity of not knowing tracks and not being easily able to skip to them; even on vinyl, you can see the breaks in the grooves.

Also, the degradation of the sound on the cassette just adds to the flavour. Sometimes, the unexpected produces more interesting sounds than the definite playback of a CD or digital file.

I just like listening to certain things on certain formats; various '80s bands (like the ones listed above), as well as this one Ben Folds Five promo I have, just feel and sound better to me on cassette than anything else.

(Plus, of course, they have an interesting art format especially when done well)

Last edited by veggieman001 (2013-02-06 00:58:15)

veggieman001 wrote:

Cassette tapes

Heck yeah
These things are like ideal for portability and they just are so cool

My dad has a whole bookshelf thing of em

Is this turning into a nostalgia topic?