Poll of the Day > 259 people cannot let go of the 80s

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Imagine still using cassette tapes in 2019

people actually used A-tracks in the 80s
cassette tapes were available too

if it still works and sounds good why not?
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I had an 02 Jeep Liberty that I got rid of last year with a cassette player. Never used it because all my cassettes are put up.

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

Because it doesn't sound good, it just sounds familiar. It's nostalgia talking all the way, like how people remember these games from their childhoods as the Greatest of All Time and then play through them again as adults and realize the game is good but it's not the greatest of all time--maybe the greatest for its time.

CTLM posted...

I had an 02 Jeep Liberty that I got rid of last year with a cassette player. Never used it because all my cassettes are put up.

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

the funny thing is that even if they actually did want to they could find it all digitally anyway and nine times out of ten it sounds better

CTLM posted...

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

My music on my phone is 80s stuff.

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On topic, people can keep using stuff for reasons beyond using it. I know people who keep VHS players because they have home videos of people who have since passed on. Wouldn't be surprised if people have audio cassettes kept for the same reason.
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DeltaBladeX posted...

CTLM posted...

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

My music on my phone is 80s stuff.

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On topic, people can keep using stuff for reasons beyond using it. I know people who keep VHS players because they have home videos of people who have since passed on. Wouldn't be surprised if people have audio cassettes kept for the same reason.

I mean... yeah but .... all of that stuff can be digitized and copied as many times as you need to create a more or less timeless copy of the video. >_>

nfmsz posted...

DeltaBladeX posted...

CTLM posted...

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

My music on my phone is 80s stuff.

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On topic, people can keep using stuff for reasons beyond using it. I know people who keep VHS players because they have home videos of people who have since passed on. Wouldn't be surprised if people have audio cassettes kept for the same reason.

I mean... yeah but .... all of that stuff can be digitized and copied as many times as you need to create a more or less timeless copy of the video. >_>

And that copy might not have the same emotional comfort the original has. They probably handled that original.
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I still have a box of cassettes but my players are long gone. Sound quality was terrible, not sure why anyone would still play them in 2019.

Given that 255 people responded yes for in-car and in-home, this must refer to the people who have it for the car... which isn't a matter of not letting go of the 80s as it is having issues affording a new car or preferring certain vehicles.
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nfmsz posted...

Imagine still using cassette tapes in 2019

Why do you even care

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redline65 posted...

I still have a box of cassettes but my players are long gone. Sound quality was terrible, not sure why anyone would still play them in 2019.

Finally someone else who can admit cassette tapes were GARBAGE

DeltaBladeX posted...

nfmsz posted...

DeltaBladeX posted...

CTLM posted...

Do people really want to hear Snow, Whitney Houston, Hall and Oates, Ace of Base among many others?

My music on my phone is 80s stuff.

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On topic, people can keep using stuff for reasons beyond using it. I know people who keep VHS players because they have home videos of people who have since passed on. Wouldn't be surprised if people have audio cassettes kept for the same reason.

I mean... yeah but .... all of that stuff can be digitized and copied as many times as you need to create a more or less timeless copy of the video. >_>

And that copy might not have the same emotional comfort the original has. They probably handled that original.

I concede to a deep sort of sentimental value of the kind you describe but I still think anybody else who still can't get into the modern age just can't get over the nostalgia.

Why should they be forced to go digital if they're fine with what they have?

Also, we don't talk about the poll.
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I have a bunch of 8 track tapes and cassette tapes but I don't ever listen to them. My vinyl collection I use a lot though.
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My 2007 Expedition has a tape player & a CD player that can play MP3s burned to a CD-R. The tape player is actually pretty handy because I can use a cassette adapter to connect to a Bluetooth receiver that's linked to my phone so I can play music from my phone or take hands-free phone calls.
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RoboXgp89 posted...

people actually used A-tracks in the 80s

it's 8-track. worried me there for a second, thinking I had it wrong...
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Pfft. I actually have a comparatively *new* cassette player, but have never owned a car so wouldn't be voting for that one.

Anyway, an "everything" store near me, a few years ago, were selling stereo units that had cassette, CD-mp3 (& .wma), radio & record player, with a slot for USB flash drives & one for SD cards, for just 80. And they're good solid units too. I bought one as a holiday treat for myself after a pretty awful year about 5 years ago (I lost two very dear friends at painfully young ages, that year), and it's still going. Will record tape, CD, vinyl or radio to the memory card in mp3 or wav format, and it lets me split tracks before export as well as after.

Great deal there, and it means I can revisit some of my old mixtapes from when I was a kid that I still own, as well as some older audiobooks of out-of-print novels, that simply haven't been released on CD or Audible yet. So why wouldn't I? I still have the mixtape my first long-term love made for me before we started dating (2002-03).

It's about the memories, for me, and recordings I can't get in other formats. I stream & listen to mp3s on the regular, too, so it isn't a case of not moving with the times. I just don't think it's necessary to abandon the past entire when moving towards the future, is all.
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