silentpunk

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Jan 27 '12

cassette decks

modernistwitch:

talldarkbishoujo:

deliciouskaek:

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.

30 notes (via modernistwitch & deliciouskaek)Tags: music

  1. gloriagotrocks said: AWESOME!!!
  2. nowisgreater reblogged this from maevele and added:
    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...
  3. yousillygit reblogged this from modernistwitch and added:
    yah!!! I definitely mastered...“fixing cassettes” as
  4. bakethatlinguist reblogged this from deliciouskaek
  5. silevitas reblogged this from silentpunk and added:
    Cheap black tapes with paper labels that I used to record random stuff with. Found one (this was years ago) with
  6. maevele reblogged this from jadelyn and added:
    ALL OF THEM! And when you’d get frantic and be like, FUCKIT, I’ll just tape over the last half of this song, I don’t...
  7. silentpunk reblogged this from modernistwitch and added:
    recording over a cassette and still being able to hear what was on it before :S with me it could have been…. a Lush...
  8. jadelyn reblogged this from maevele and added:
    Scrambling to find your current blank tape when a song started on the radio, so your taped-from-radio cassettes had most...
  9. maevele reblogged this from modernistwitch and added:
    Putting a penny on top of the needle arm of the record player to weigh it down and avoid skipping.
  10. deliciouskaek reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    Then getting your brother/sister/cousin/friend to be quiet until the song’s over so their singing won’t be on it. Trying...
  11. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from deliciouskaek and added:
    “STOP TALKING GAWD WHY YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TALK OVER THE SONGS”
  12. deliciouskaek reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    “taping songs off the radio”
  13. modernistwitch reblogged this from talldarkbishoujo and added:
    That little BEE BEE BEE BEE BEEP? at the beginning and end of prerecorded cassettes Putting scotch tape over the notches...
  14. talldarkbishoujo reblogged this from deliciouskaek and added:
    Cassette singles. Taping songs off the radio. Frantically trying to put records on tape before you
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