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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Cassette afterlife
This is the kind of eccentric, barking mad art 'happening' that makes me like living around here. Tatty Devine (jewellery) and Prick Your Finger (craft shop) are having an 'Analogue Amnesty' - they will take your old video & music cassettes and weave them into a yarn for you. I guess I'll never listen to my tapes again - I have nothing to play them on, for one - but can I bring myself to turn them into yarn? So many memories wrapped up in those C90s...
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WAIIIITTTTTT!
Before you turn over a life's work of lovingly put together complilations and recordings of albums you didn't need to buy because your friend had it (by the way, was anyone ever scared by those 'HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC' warnings?), read this this . Make sure you salvage your past before the hippies turn them into twine slingbacks, go on, be a geek!
By the way, that last comment was from me. I am having some trouble with multiple Blogger/Google Accounts cluttering up my world.
At least tape is being recycled into something else and whoever thought of that idea deserves some credit in hippiedom.
David the Curve's link was interesting to read and made a good point of success rates in converting analogue to digital. You can't polish a turd but you can get away with this process if the cassette is:
a) in good nick
b) an audio book
c) a bootleg
d) an out of print copy.
Otherwise it'll be less time consuming to order the CD version. Good riddance to unreliable tape.
Sorry, I've gone into geek mode.
Noooooooooo. Keep them all. Never throw them away. They are history. I've still got mix tapes I made age 12. I'm never throwing them away.
Aaah, the good old reliable C90.
I can remember when they tried to complicate things and started introducing things like Cx90, CDX90, C100 etc etc for better sound quality or different lengths because more and more albums were longer than a side at 45 mins.
RoMo - "They are history..."
Too bloody right they are, chuck 'em in the skip.
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