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Mars Tapes in Manchester bills itself as "The last tape shop in the UK." - r/CassetteCulture. More photos at the link. (www.reddit.com)

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm old and really kind of miss physical media. But the audio quality of cassettes is shit. And I don't miss that.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I was going to say, I'm no audiophile but I always assumed cassettes were at the bottom of the barrel when it came to quality. I remember the jump from that to CD and it was huge. Hell, my mom had records I liked to play over cassettes as a kid because it sounded better. Thriller was big in our house.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago

I loved making tapes for myself in the 1970s and - of course - lots of other people did too. We knew cassettes sounded worse but there was no alternative. It's weird to me that - as far as I know - in the last few decades no company even tried to make an all digital physical media thing with at least a minimal cassette vibe.

For example: "I made this mixtape for you..." has a charm like nothing else.