17 thoughts on “No Country for Old (Rap) Men: Is it time to bury cassettes, once and for all?”

  1. After reading that I feel selling my wax,CDs, & vhs tapes (after digitizing em). The books and mags can stay. Got too many of them as well and I threw a bunch of em away back in 2000

  2. Im never throwing away my cds,tapes, or my collection of XXL, Source, Vibe, Rap Pages, Scratch or Murda Dog magazines. Never.

  3. I have thrown out my chewed up tapes and CDs(what a horrible format!!) Long ago But my vinyl and XXL Source and HHC will never go!! Call me nostalgic but I am actually greateful to have been a part of an acient time where you had to cratedig and stumple upon something magic instead of everything beeing one click away….

  5. I do miss the liner notes. I love reading the liner notes as I sit around and listen to the music. I guess that is what discogs is for.

  6. Lot of people still buy cassettes, I’ve sold nearly all my tapes online for good $ and was surprised. One thing I really don’t get is the 45 thing, I sold a G Rap ‘road to the riches’ 45 for $150, and the 12″ sells for about $5-$10. I don’t understand the draw to 45’s other than the lighter weight, mixing with them kind of sucks.

  7. I feel your pain on this one definitely. Moving house Would be so much easier without all that accumulated Shit.

  8. i aint givin em away nuttin, i still record my mixes on tape, i dont have anything else n wouldn’t even know how to do it otherwise… blank tapes are quite expensive tho these days… one day or another will still need to figure out how to rwecord in some mp3 format…

  9. Hi Rob, you cannot do this,music is not just music, it’s emotion an history of our culture.With the digital format you only have acces to the artist,the featuring and the producer if he is quiet famous….but don’t tell me that D&D,Chung King House or Joe “the butcher” Nicolo don’t mean something to you…

  10. I have about 1,000 records, 7 size 12 shoeboxes of tapes and roughly 300-350 CD’s and they’re going nowhere.

  11. There’s a hipster record store near me that sells tapes for upwards of $40. Want BWP’s only release on used cassette? Be prepared to drop $50 on that. They keep that joint behind the register.

  12. Persist with the tapes, thin them down keep the faves. Archive, preserve. I couldnt chuck my best tapes away. Would only do that to snapped or chewed up ones that old. OG 80s/90s tapes of recorded radio very hard to part with near impossible for me.

  13. Hell naw embrace the past…you’re just gonna end up selling them to some trust-fundian kid with no respect for the art and culture and they will eventually wind up destroying them with no shame when the the game is no longer en vouge.

  14. I own about 60 cassette tapes and I constantly buy CDs and I’m 49 years old I just can’t get with the MP3 and digital formats probably going to be that way until I die LOL

  16. No feeling was worse than your favorite album on cassette being chewed up by the cassette player because it was having a bad day, thank God for CDs and digital…

  17. I was a teenage tapehead but haven’t had a functioning tape deck for years now buying a new one is something I keep meaning to get around to do but never quite manage it, I had a dig in some of my old tape boxes and found my original cassette versions of ‘Breaking Atoms’, ‘Intelligent Hoodlum’, ‘Derelicts Of Dialect’ & erm ‘Stone Cold Rhymin’ these are the ones that seem to have survived the intervening years. Aahhh the memories.

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