Needles & Grooves

I couldn't agree with you more. I have a pile of tapes from my JNR membership that I have literally no way to play, and no desire to buy equipment to allow me to do it

I don't think this one will take off - flash fad IMHO. It's cool if you have a super old ride with a cassette player only but otherwise I think it's a pure nostalgia play. To each their own, though! I own a few cassettes of my favorite bands just for fun, but I'll never play them.

Yeah, I don't get it. I do still listen to CDs, in addition to vinyl and streaming, but that's as far back as I'm going on the format front. I was very happy to see cassettes go away.

I don't collect tapes, but have friends that are avid collectors and have large collections. I think a lot of niche genre labels on Bandcamp have cult followings that just love tapes and they're super affordable to create, personalize, and distribute. Vinyl is cost prohibitive for a lot of smaller acts. 8-tracks and minidiscs are popular too, lol. I bought an old walkman for the handful of tapes I own.

I listen to cassettes. I have some old cheap cassettes & a boombox. I use it when I'm outside. I like being in nature without my phone, or the idea of having every song at my fingertips. Kind of takes the distractions out when I'm outside and want music, but also desire simplicity.

Clearly you don't own a Classic 1991 Subaru Legacy Wagon with a stock Tape Deck (w/ Auto Reverse). My cassette tape collection is straight fire; 30+ tapes. Unfortunately the transmission sprung a leaking rendering it undrivable and my new wheels only have Bluetooth. I still kinda wanna get a Walkmen and/or Stereo deck Just so keep the antiquated goodness going.

I will probably go through another cassette phase before all is said and done.

tbf I used to watch Empire Records and be like "silly Mark why u so obsessed with vinyl" and now HERE WE ARE

If I had a way to play them, I would. But I'm packing up all my old mixtapes to mail to my brother whose 4-runner has a tape deck.

I don't get it either. To me, the only plus of cassettes was the mixtape possibilities. I mean filling a 90 minute cassette with fire on both sides was a real talent. I don't need albums in that format.

I still have the first stereo system I ever bought, which has a tape deck. But do I ever actually listen to what tapes I have left? Nope.