[atoav]

You are aware that there are people who like the sound of tape noise and the saturation comes with it?

As a medium it also one of the few that gives listeners a high incentive to not skip songs.

These are valid artistic choices, just like you know guitarist who run their guitar through amplifiers that distort. On persons "mistake" can be another persons goal.

Also: if the thing includes a download code to a lossless flac, why would someone even consider to buy a CD? So they can listen to the exactly same thing, but with worse ergonomics? With the casette you get at least a different variant of the thing.

I wouldn't use it myself if I made classical or choir music, but that is not what I do.

[badgersnake]

> These are valid artistic choices, just like you know guitarist who run their guitar through amplifiers that distort. On persons "mistake" can be another persons goal.

Sure, if that’s what you want to do, do it and the record it on a better medium.

[CamperBob2]

You are aware that there are people who like the sound of tape noise and the saturation comes with it?

Great. They can get that with a DSP plugin. "They" being the artist, if that's what they want their music to sound like.