cassette decks that had auto-reverse
and then
dual cassette decks with auto-reverse
became
portable cassette players
^ with auto-reverse
and finally
PORTABLE DUAL CASSETTE PLAYERS WITH DUAL AUTO-REVERSE
and ^ that was the way I carried my music.
I am ollllllddddd
Cassette singles.
Taping songs off the radio.
Frantically trying to put records on tape before you had to replace the needle.
That little BEE BEE BEE BEE BEEP? at the beginning and end of prerecorded cassettes
Putting scotch tape over the notches so you could tape over a prerecorded cassette
Having to sit and rewind the tape with a pencil in the spool whenever it snarled in the deck
recording over a cassette and still being able to hear what was on it before :S
with me it could have been…. a Lush album but you could still hear Selected Tales from Hans Christian Anderson underneath from an earlier point in my childhood.
31 notes (via modernistwitch-deactivated20120 & deliciouskaek)
Man, even when I sat there with my tape at the ready, most of the songs had the first few seconds cut off, because most...
Cheap black tapes with paper labels that I used to record random stuff with. Found one (this was years ago) with
Scrambling to find your current blank tape when a song started on the radio, so your taped-from-radio cassettes had most...
Then getting your brother/sister/cousin/friend to be quiet until the song’s over so their singing won’t be on it. Trying...
“STOP TALKING GAWD WHY YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TALK OVER THE SONGS”