I never grew up with cassette tapes, but I'd give 'em a try any day!

I grew up on a mix of tapes, CDs, and an Mp3 player.
I want to expand my tape collection though since it seems like alot of the better music is on those, and some of the modern artists I follow also release content on tape.

I still have a couple of cassettes lying around, my favorites being the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mixtapes.

Hunh! I grew up with vinyl records, 45s and 33 1/3s, along with reel-to-reel tapes and 8-track tapes. Heck, CDs were popular for about 5 or 10 years before I got my first CD player. (Yeah, I'm a bit old-fashioned. LOL.)

*takes the mixtape and puts it in a blueray player* hmm its not working

I do believe this is the first time I've EVER seen Hazel grin like a Cheshire cat. It actually looks good on her.

Something must have gone really, really right for Hazel. Never seen her smile like that.

Or did they change her medication?

I'd say its more along the line of something going right. Now she better hope sales do well otherwise she'll be returning to her gloomy self pretty quick.

'S'funny -- that's a format that came into existence and quietly guttered out before she would have been born. I'd think a tech-head like Hazel would be solidly digital, but some people just like what they like!

Digital is just too convenient except when its not (proprietary formats, drm, the discontinuation of your favorite music buying store and in its place a crappy subscription streaming only service with ads that I outright refuse to use)

As I sit here and look at literally piles of CDs. I've never owned an 8-Track, but I bought an accessory cassette deck for my car back in 1978. I had to wire up a manual switch to select the source for the speakers. I did buy commercial tapes early on, but quality was iffy. I switched to using LPs for source and 'ripped' my own tapes. First on oxide, then on CrO₂; when I got a car that would play metal tape I switched again. I got my first car with a CD player in the late '80s and never looked back.

I've currently got a couple of 8 track tapes in the closet but no player.
I know one time a dozen or so years ago my dad had an old car (or probably a truck) that had an 8-track player in it and I remember listening to some on it being all mystified by how you could switch Programs at any given time and how it didn't seem to have any tape reels inside (I know now it has that goofy single spool system inside)

Maaan, I wish cassette stores were still around. There's a music store near me, but they only sell CDs and vinyl.

Yeah. I hear that vinyl records are starting to make a comeback. I've even seen them in my local Wal-Mart store.

The only place I've seen new Cassettes being released is from some artists on Bandcamp, I guess they don't have the same level of 'retro nostalgia' as vinyl even though I think they're a lot less hassle. Maybe someday there will be a resurgence who knows. Part of me wants a VHS resurgence but I really really doubt that will happen (too bad D-VHS wasn't more popular at least those were in 1080i then people wouldn't complain about picture quality).

Cassette Tapes are so 1980's lmao.

Exactly the idea ^^

LOL

Ah, yes; cassette tapes.

It's kind of a shame that they get ruined over time, compared to CDs. But hey; that's where a lot of people who own cassette tapes copy them onto MP3 or WAV files for non-commercial use!

I guess it all depends on how many times they're played and the quality of the tape deck. I've got a lot of tapes from the 80s that are doing fine but I also don't know the 'mileage' of them. CDs can go bad over time by themselves, I've had a number of DVDs (I know we're talking about CDs but close enough) suffer from 'disc rot' where the shiny metal coating corrodes and becomes unreadable. Most of these discs however were from the same company making me think they were just poorly made.
Depending on what genre you listen to Cassettes seem to be making a comeback although new tape players aren't... I'd like to find a decent portable tape player for a reasonable price but the Scalpers on eBay make sure that wont happen (so I have to use my ''custom'' boombox made of an old 2001 Nissan radio and some other parts, it weighs a ton but sounds amazing)

Ah; I see.

Well, maybe someone will make a KickStarter, to make a new cassette player, then.

BTW? Hazel looks cute in this one; excellent work, there!

One of the few times she's seen smiling and not sarcastically

Indeed!

When it comes to idealism? More power to her!