It’s also very very cool indeed.
Cassette Store Day 2015: One of my favourite T-Shirts
Tag: Cassettes
I do love tapes. I think I always have.
Welcome to Cassette Store Day 2015 …
It feels like Cassette Store Day is something that was created just for me. So, I’m going to celebrate it here in style. Stay tuned for a lot of Cassette flavoured goodness today!
Cassette Store Day is only a week away
It’s only a week away and I’m wondering what to do to celebrate cassettes in my own way. I’m not quite sure what form that will take, but there will be something for sure.
Bill Nelson’s Getting the Holy Ghost Across … the tape!
I already have this album, on vinyl and on CD, but the tape has something special about it, and it isn’t just that it was the format that I bought this album on for the first time. No, it’s something different.
With the original tape was a lyric list that came with it, printed on the same sort of paper that bibles are printed with. It was a lovely touch and in keeping with the whole album, so when I saw it come up on eBay I knew it was something I wanted to own again just for old times sake.
Cassette Store Day will return 17 October
Great that Cassette Store day is coming back again this year. I hope it’ll be better supported than before. I’ll be celebrating it of course. Why wouldn’t I?
Nearer the time I’ll try and post details of events and the like, and hopefully I’ll get along to some too.
Wishing that Unknown Public was still a thing
But it isn’t and hasn’t been for a long time now, which is such a shame. It was such an interesting idea and such a good package. Of course it was in a time before music discovery on the internet was a thing. Before Spotify was a thing. Back then, stuff like Unknown Public (although there wasn’t really anything like it) was a really good way to discover new music, new artists. It worked like that for me.
So in many ways it doesn’t have a place in terms of today’s music world, but I think we’re poorer for it. A lot of the enjoyment from Unknown public was in how it was put together. The beauty of the package and its contents. You can’t make that on the internet. Maybe someone should try.
The beauty of tapes …
This is the coolest T-Shirt I’ve ever owned
It’s totally awesome!
Now I have a use for this!
I’ve had this 4 port USB cassette for ages but haven’t really had a use for it up until now, so I’m so glad to have a reason to get it out and plug it in after all this time, and even more I’m so glad that I didn’t get rid of it.
But of course, this would be much better …
After my last post it occurred to me that I have a much better machine for cassette playback. One that will almost certainly deliver better quality, and it was almost completely staring me in the face.
I think I might try this next!
