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27 Sep 2020, 3:45 pm

Vinyl Sales Surpass CD Sales for the First Time in 34 Years.
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29 Sep 2020, 12:03 pm

I'm very surprised vinyl records ever came back into popularity after CDs came out. I was too young to really use records when they were dying out & I was too old to embrace them when the hipsters brought them back.
When will cassettes become popular again because people prefer the tape sound to the sound of CDs & online music :?:
When will VCR tapes become popular again because people miss the tape picture quality & sound when compared to the picture & sound of DVDs & online streaming :?:


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29 Sep 2020, 4:07 pm

nick007 wrote:
I'm very surprised vinyl records ever came back into popularity after CDs came out. I was too young to really use records when they were dying out & I was too old to embrace them when the hipsters brought them back.
When will cassettes become popular again because people prefer the tape sound to the sound of CDs & online music :?:
When will VCR tapes become popular again because people miss the tape picture quality & sound when compared to the picture & sound of DVDs & online streaming :?:


Cassette tape fans aren't as elitist as vinyl or 8-track fans and cassettes are pretty lo-fi compare to vinyl, 8-tracks, CDs or mp3s, so I wouldn't expect it to happen. The main draw of cassette tapes was being able to copy, trade and make customized mixes. File trading makes tape trading obsolete unless the fan is deep into a genre where cassette releases without a digital option is common, like underground black metal.

If it were to happen it would likely be fixated on genres like industrial and black metal and hip-hop since tape trading was important to the development of those genres.

Personally I have samples of over an hour of VHS, vinyl record and cassette tape noise to dub over my projects when they're done to make them sound more like what I'm imitating.


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