I recently found my old yellow walkman, and a bunch of mix tapes in my parents garage. Also found the last mixtape that I made, meant for a girl from Saskatoon. The track list is still awesome beyond imagining. There was a magic to being forced to listen to tracks in a certain order.
Working Sony walkman's in good condition, and especially the original ones are selling for ludicrous money on ebay, I've seen them as high as $900.00
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I remember listening to "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, and the weekly top 40!" before anyone else in the house would be up. Working on puzzles in the basement, with one hand ready on the 'record' button.
I had a double cassette deck on my stereo, when I would go out, I would put a blank tape in each deck and record a station out of Spokane (they played cooler music). One would finish recording and the other would start. I’d get home and see if any treasures were recorded
A little OT - I was sitting on my deck the other day, enjoying my high, when i thought what my 13-15 year old self would say. Sitting on my deck with 100000+ songs available to me on a device smaller than a pack of smokes, listening to a portable speaker with no wires
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I'd tape a bunch of stuff when I did campus radio. Still have about eight cassettes worth in my basement that gets played occasionally. Just wish I did a better job of writing down who performed some songs.
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I kinda remember when I'd go to buy cassettes and you could buy a pack of 10 cassettes for like a buck each or a metal cassette for like 5 bucks. "Better quality" they said "won't get eaten by your deck" they swore. All lies.
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Ha! I remember taping MuchMusic on VHS when I was in class, and then coming home to tape it off of VHS onto cassette.
Remember when Muchmusic used to show full-length live concerts? I remember taping a bunch of those and transferring them to cassette so I could listen to them in my Walkman or the car.
I remember trying to record Don't Fear the Reaper off the radio. I'd only heard it once before, in The Stand miniseries. When the solo started I thought it was a new song so I stopped the tape.
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I still remember when CD's came out and I think Sony came out with those cassette to diskman converter kits for your car. It looked like a cassette
I had one of those in my 91 Ford Explorer. I build a wooden box for the discman to sit on. It had a lid where I hide the discman in when I wasn't in the vehicle.
I had one of those in my 91 Ford Explorer. I build a wooden box for the discman to sit on. It had a lid where I hide the discman in when I wasn't in the vehicle.
I had one of this tape deck-Aux converters. It actually worked great especially compared to the radio signal versions at the time. Super clear sound.
I remember trying to record Don't Fear the Reaper off the radio. I'd only heard it once before, in The Stand miniseries. When the solo started I thought it was a new song so I stopped the tape.
That's a funny one for me.. I always liked that song but always missed who the artist was when it played. It ended up taking a couple of years to find out, and when I finally did was kind of disappointed they were such one hit wonders!
That's a funny one for me.. I always liked that song but always missed who the artist was when it played. It ended up taking a couple of years to find out, and when I finally did was kind of disappointed they were such one hit wonders!
I don't know. if I would call them a one hit wonder.
not with songs like burnin for you and Godzilla.
I also would never say I'm disappointed with the band. after hearing the hits, I loved the band after getting deeper into their full albums.
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as a kid i never understood the whole bias setting thing.........i remember seeing ads in certain mens magazines for maxell tapes with the guy with his hair and tie being blown back by the pure sound.........funny how i think about how the consumption of music has changed over my lifetime in terms of 78's, 45's, LP, cassattes, CD's, digital and then stirring in music videos, much music and now youtube where your favorite videos are almost on demand (although i wonder do musicians make videos for new music).
my kids will never know having to wait to get to a music store to buy a record/cassette as they just get the music from the cloud the second it is available.
good grief, at 55 i am really old now
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