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  21st Apr 2023, 12:17 PM#1  REPORT  
zabadak

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Sales are booming, according to The Guardian :shocked:


  21st Apr 2023, 4:33 PM#2  REPORT  
Charlie Chalk

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Reely?


  22nd Apr 2023, 1:31 AM#3  REPORT  
zabadak

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Charlie Chalk wrote:
Reely?
Yep, no wind-up! :whistle:


  22nd Apr 2023, 10:51 AM#4  REPORT  
Magic Marmalade

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Should help the sale of pencils too! :thumbsup:


  22nd Apr 2023, 11:45 AM#5  REPORT  
zabadak

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Magic Marmalade wrote:
Should help the sale of pencils too! :thumbsup:
:laugh:

You may have a point...


  26th Apr 2023, 10:46 PM#6  REPORT  
alexlincs

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Surely it's because people see them as accumulating value in the future. Besides audiophiles like us who owns a cassette player?


  29th Apr 2023, 1:10 PM#7  REPORT  
Magic Marmalade

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Well I wouldn't call myself an audiophile exactly, not even a proper "record collector" as such, but more record hunter...

...And for the reason that having suffered acute agoraphobia a few years back, as well as anthropophobia (if that's a word), having these things to hunt provided the impetus and motivation to get over these things, by getting me out the front door!

These objects gave me a reason to get in the world, whilst drawing my focus from the horror of it.

(I used to say that the worst thing in the world was the inside of my front door, and the best thing in the world was the other side of it - the one meaning stepping out into it, the other, reaching safety.)

But as well as getting me out into the morning, and walking, which kept me fit, it was, unlike everything else, a cheap day out - value for money. I could go out with a pocket full of change, maybe a tenner or sometimes even twenty, and come back with bags of stuff that kept me busy for a month!... where else in life can such joy be gotten so cheaply?

Of course, the down side of everyone getting back into vinyl, especially in straitened times, is it gets harder to find anything decent, because you're competing with everyone else (as well as those selling realising everybody wants them, so puts the prices up), and so I started buying CDs when the vinyl was thin on the ground - that way I always came home with something at least, and over time, I started getting into these, having been pushed out of the vinyl world effectively, but now the same thing seems to be happening to CDs, as good ones of these, let alone in any quantity is getting harder to find.

So it's recently been: On to cassettes!

I can still get these for pennies, and sometimes by the bag-load.

...But this news means of course, they are going to start getting scarce too soon, or overpriced :sad:

(Also getting a lot of joy from books and DVDs, the latter because nobody values them, and so are cheap still).

I did find a great little doofer in the charity shop a couple of weeks back called "Vinyl Forever" for £2... which is a phono block with RCA jacks in and USB out, which also accepts anything with RCAs: Tape decks etc. and so ca get all my music in the computer, and then on to mp3 (quite cheap even new these things - well worth £15 or so).

So I guess once this inevitable process of resurgences of various formats has revived the cylinder market finally, I'll be collecting porcelain pigs or some such :laugh:

The point here, other than my own anecdotes, is that I suspect experiences not dissimilar to my own are one of the principal driving forces behind these various resurgences, getting people back in contact with real people, in ways they can afford (without subscribing to anything, or being progressively more "owned" by streaming services and grasping corporations etc.).

The problem is, those that want to push these little news nuggets are doing so only drive that market so they can have anther avenue to exploit people, especially in the face of an exhausted and culturally bankrupt digital market, struggling to justify it's existence in the post-internet age we are now entering, and who's total lack of awareness, let alone self awareness means they don't realise the "markets" they are now attempting to exploit were created spontaneously, and at grass roots, as a means of trying to get away from them in the first place!

HMV back in the news, proving this point once more as they keep jack up prices until they go out of business... yet again!

(I give them six months before they are back in administration).

Anyway, rant over, and all of which is to say:

Yes, I do own a cassette deck :thumbsup:


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