Cassette Tapes. Does anyone still buy them?

[Constantbee]

I most certainly do still buy them, and use them, too Local BHF shop had a mint selection of someone’s Deutsche Gramophone Beethoven tapes for sale recently for 99p each which I snapped up. There wouldn't be a lot of interest in that sort of thing round here, so that’s where you’ll find the bargains. I still have a large collection of BBC Language Course tape cassettes which I value. Also, a lot of OU maths course lectures which I find invaluable because the courses get revised, rewritten and replaced after a very short shelf life. Some I value so much I wouldn’t listen to them without copying them to a blank tape very carefully first. What you have to watch out for is storage conditions. I always store mine upright, not flat, somewhere cool at a constant temperature and definitely out of direct sunlight. hth

[jayne lee wilson]

I would never return to cassette now - too many heartbreaking recalls for the Radio 3 off-air obsessive.....

[Serial_Apologist]

I would never return to cassette now - too many heartbreaking recalls for the Radio 3 off-air obsessive.....

I've been going over my 1000+ cassettes collection for gaps, and filling in the few remaining spaces. Just earlier on I sandwiched a quite reasonable recording of the Maconchy 3rd str qt between a couple of episodes of a series on Herbie Hancock I made from the 1990s. One used to be able to obtain packs of blank TDKs in any number of Asian-run multipurpose retailers, but apparently the police have now progressed with the techology they use for recording interviews with suspects.