Vinyl has the audiophiles to keep it relevant, and CDs still have the people who are scared of streaming music, but who mourns for the cassette tape? Yesterday we would have said nobody ...
Its owner, Harry, has taken over the business from his grandfather. One day, Harry comes across a cassette tape in the back room. He shows it to Ei, a university student studying Japanese culture ...
I’d released an album on tape, and spent a little extra to ensure the cassette itself was a thing of beauty. It deserved to be seen, rather than hidden away in a case on a shelf. I wanted to ...
The thinner tape also increased the risk of "print-through ... allowing for seamless CD-to-cassette transfers. This format gained popularity among consumers who wished to create cassette copies ...
Interest in the 1980s and 1990s appears to be growing, as one staple of the period is seemingly making a comeback: the cassette tape. Artists like Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift seem to be ...
Cassette tapes are impractical, and the people who buy and produce them agree. Yet, a community of listeners continue to keep them alive. “It’s ridiculous buying cassettes and having a cassette player ...
Then there was a renewal of interest in the cassette tape that was the staple music format through much of the 1970s and 1980s. Now it’s the turn of the CD for a revival. Sales of silver discs ...
Similarly, in the U.S. 2022 sales of albums on cassette tape jumped by 28% to 440,000. That's up from 343,000 in 2021, according to the U.S. 2022 Luminate Year-End Music Report. Before streaming ...