C-30, C-60, C-90 Go!
It really was the most versatile home listening and recording system ever. Press one button, and you had music. Press two, and you could record it. At home, on the beach, in the car, on the train, even walking down the road, the cassette tape revolutionized the manner in which we consume - and share - music.
Long before CDs, cassettes offered a more convenient way to listen to music. And they (sometimes) gave us bonus tracks as well. Long before MP3s, they let us mix up our music for on-the-go variety. Long before a lot of the so-called miracles that digital sound dropped upon us, cassettes had already done it.
You want an album that doesn’t skip or scratch? Play a cassette. You want to make a mix for a loved one of all your favorite songs? Make a cassette. You want to relive a gig over and over? Bring your cassette. You want not to spend a couple of hundred bucks on a thumbnail-sized player that the dog will probably swallow tomorrow? Buy a cassette.
Cassettes: How did we ever live without them? And why would we even want to?
Well, let us count the ways.
The cassette first
