[Htsthbjig]

I make arrowheads for my DIY bow from bottle glass and stone because I want to know how it was like hunting thousands of years ago.

I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing. I actually lived casettes and HATE them. I sold all my collection, burned the piece of furniture that held it in a night of San Juan fire.

Great memories (the fire and the party on the beach, it became useful after all).

Now with just Garageband and audacity I could do 100 times more that I could do with cassetes and hold thousands of times more recordings and songs without the nonsense analog noise in my pocket.

I couldn't help when I read PR like this to think that someone else needs to find "a bigger sucker" in order to get rid of their cassete junk in their parent's garage or something and make a profit out of it.

In 2015 CDs sell for as much as $15? Wow, it is not like people could connect to youtube, download any song of the world with youtuve-dl with better quality that cassete could ever dream about. And better talk about even more outdated tech like vinyl without talking about itunes or dozens of music web sites and social networks as alternatives for "music lovers" so the article does not sound as the piece of PR it is.

[fennecfoxen]

> I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing.

Oh, cassette tapes are great for people with kids! Unlike CDs or vinyl, you can hand over the collection with only limited risk of damage, as they are substantially scratchproof and unbreakable even when used as ballistic projectiles or impromptu teething devices. Durable medium!

(Occasionally one will have its guts ripped out, though. Nothing's foolproof.)

[mhd]

But even then it's usually not strong enough to e.g. serve as a strangulation device a younger brother might employ on a older, yet not much bigger one. Or so I've heard.

[nnbvv]

> I see little children having curiosity about those "cassetes" thing, but it is a five minutes thing.

That's quite a condescending and misinformed attitude. Tape recordings have never gone away in certain music scenes, and those scenes are occupied mostly by older music listeners for whom it's a matter nostalgia or aesthetic preference.

Tape hiss goes well with certain extreme styles of music, IMO.

[kevin_thibedeau]

I was recently looking into getting an album from a Canadian band. They're still playing that BS "import CD" game and wanted $26. The same on vinyl was $13.