Throwback time!

Wow. You even have a tape from Radio Shack.
Generally, anything I have on cassette was recorded off of vinyl that I own so I could listen to them in the car.
Mine are all in a box somewhere in the basement storage room. Along with the VHS and BETA video tapes.

Radio Shack Supertapes were always a dollar or two more expensive than Maxell, TDK, Sony and other brands. I only bought them when they were on sale.

Woooooow I remember buying a lot of these tapes. Mostly the grey Maxell XL2's in the bottom row, second from left as well as the clear one two up from it. That TDK MA110 Type 4 Metal cassette is pretty rare from what I remember...

I remember that they weren't super-rare then. I bought them because many CD's in the 90's were getting longer, around 50-55 minutes.

Oooh MA110. I prefer SA90 myself -- lasts forever.

The VERY best tape I ever had was MAX60. They were a metal tape but extra cobalt in the mix. Only sold in Japan. Use with Dolby C, and you'll swear you're listening to CD, the hiss was so low.

Still have my cassettes from the 80's. Made mix tapes, and played them back in my 82 Dodge Rampage.

Nice collection!
Yep Radio Shack made some terrific Chrome tape, but the housings were usually substandard and almost always would tangle eventually, so I began to steer clear..

I never had any problems with Radio Shack's Chrome or Metal tapes. The ones they made from the late 80's to early 90's were very good. The Radio Shack tapes I didn't like were the Realistic Low Noise. After 40 years the oxide is flaking off some of those tapes when I play them back! But I bought them back in the late 70's-early 80's because Radio Shack had frequent 2 for 1 sales on them.

Got an original print of Metallica's self titled album with the book included.

All of those are familiar to me. I have a bunch of things saved like mix tapes, bits of my radio programs, and Anthrocon panels from 1998 thru about 2011 or so (at which point I went digital with mp3 files). Some cassette decks had auto reverse so you could record 90 min or whatever at a time. Radio Shack tapes: When he started out, Weird Al Yankovic was advised by Dr Demento to not submit his songs on "cheap 39 cent Radio Shack tapes".

"Keep circulating the tapes!" It was more than just a saying on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (early on, people traded videotapes of episodes). _Audio_ tape trading meant things like recording local radio stations and sending them to friends, recording albums (record industry frowned on that, "sending to friends") or taking part in tape exchanges with friends where you did your own mix. Of course there was recording your own albums on vinyl or CD and putting them on tape so you could hear them on the car cassette deck.

These days people enjoy audiobooks as sound files but for years you could get them on cassettes.
(Now: download a book from Audible onto phone and use bluetooth to hear in the car.)

Oh the nostalgia. I used all of these at some point except the Denon and the supertape.

:D Cassettes! I love that TDK SA! What deck do you use?

I was overjoyed when I found out these are making a comeback!! We need more demand for physical retro media!!