Old cassettes still hanging around???

[pitbull12888]

I thought u wanted to buy some... dam u! lolzzzz

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I think I have a snoop dogg "doggystyle" and a tlc tape somewhere.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I thought u wanted to buy some... dam u! lolzzzz

Were you going to sell him some?

You have got to be the most white trash member here //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

no tapes, but i do remember getting Thriller, on cassette for xmas when i was like 5. It was so bad ***.
the days when Michael Jackson was scary to kids for a different reason were so much simpler.

I remember getting Thriller on record! Very true MJ has gone from one type of scary to another.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I think I have a snoop dogg "doggystyle" and a tlc tape somewhere.

hey dont go chasing waterfalls.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

hey dont go chasing waterfalls.

I still remember watching that video when Bill Bellamy hosted Most Wanted Jams or something like that. In came on in the morning before school.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

I still remember watching that video when Bill Bellamy hosted Most Wanted Jams or something like that. In came on in the morning before school.

But more importantly do you remember where you were when they announced the OJ verdict?

I do. I was at an alternative high school, watching it live on BET. When it was announced the previously still room of mostly minorities erupted in a loud and boisterous celebratory cheer.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Yes. I was in the 5th grade. About 60% white school. Most everyone did not care.

Boyz in the Hood's premiere on regular television had a far greater impact on our school socially.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Yes. I was in the 5th grade. About 60% white school. Most everyone did not care.
Boyz in the Hood's premiere on regular television had a far greater impact on our school socially.

I was close to that....was in 6th, maybe 7th grade. 60% asian though and had some white peoples....people cheered that the verdict was innocent. I didn't care cos it just took time away from having to do work in class.

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

Okay - now that you're looking at the thread title probably going "WTF is Prowler on about NOW?!?" here's what I'm talking about.
My house has recently become a non-smoking area for a list of various reasons so those of us who live here and those that visit and have this awful habit are now made to go outside to light up.

Consequently the back porch has turned into quite the heavily-used common area since the majority of those who visit here smoke and most of the actual residents do as well. Just for something to do one evening when I was bored I put my only remaining unused headunit and some really crappy speakers that I once bought for a work truck (Don't laugh too hard - they were $10 per enclosure preloaded with the ultra-generic drivers contained within...so, all in all the two boxes together are easily worth $20 just to have something to listen to) outside for the purposes of having some tunes going while smoking, sitting around visiting, or whatever.

Well, the only headunit I have left that isn't currently in use in a car happens to be the very last cassette receiver I ever bought myself ~ A Kenwood KRC-608. You see boys and girls, not all of us that participate here are young enough to have never bought an aftermarket HU that wasn't a CD deck. Some of us are old enough to date back to the days when nobody had CD players in their cars because they didn't exist in the mainstream market yet or at the very least if they did your average joe couldn't afford one.

This specific unit happens to be the last one I ever used with a 10-disc changer in the trunk. For a tape deck it's pretty full-featured but it's a tape deck nonetheless. (And it was a major pain in the posterior trying to remember the security code after connecting it to power seeing as I programmed it in HOW many years ago now?!?)

Pic of my uber-ghetto back porch audio setup:

At any rate ~ since there was a tape deck hooked up and going I went and dug out my old cassette tapes from the attic just to see what I had on tape that I haven't listened to in quite some time.

Digging through one multi-tape case I happened across a tape containing two albums I had copied to cassette a good long while ago - it is the very first two albums by AC/DC which, oddly enough, have the same title but contain different songs. One was an Australian-only release and the other was a worldwide release. As I sat there and listened to the tape for the 1st time in a great long while I picked up the case the tape had been in to see if my handwriting had changed significantly through the years (it hasn't) and that was when I noticed the date on the back of the insert: 12/03/87.

Come this December it will have been fully two decades ago that I dubbed that tape from LP and it still plays just fine!

Now - to the real point of this thread....how many of you still have 4-track cassette tapes hanging around for whatever reason(s) and for those of you that do are any of them considerably older than a cassette tape has any right to be and still work right?

Discuss ~~~

i used to tape songs off the radio usin a 4 track recorder. it was the big tapes that looked like pieces of bread or a paperback book. i used my parents old soundsign receiver //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[adio 5,000+ posts]

But more importantly do you remember where you were when they announced the OJ verdict?I do. I was at an alternative high school, watching it live on BET. When it was announced the previously still room of mostly minorities erupted in a loud and boisterous celebratory cheer.

freshmen year at college sleep

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

Yes. I was in the 5th grade. About 60% white school. Most everyone did not care.
Boyz in the Hood's premiere on regular television had a far greater impact on our school socially.

I was about 8 or 9 when Boyz In The Hood came out in theaters and I remember when they had extra security at the theaters during its run. Apparently people would get all hot and bothered over the movie and do something dumb.

I bought my last tape in 1996. It was some Bay Area rap group. Although it probably wasn't until 1998 or 1999 that I actually stopped listening to tapes completely.

I was a valet about 4 years ago and I was shocked how many new cars came with tape decks. I figured by then they had all but been phased out. It was mostly the low end luxury cars that had them. They probably wanted to force you to upgrade to the "premium" sound system.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

i even still own records

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

There is like 400+ cassettes in the desk that I'm at right now...

 

[neonrt 10+ year member]

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i have a sony XR-C5120 tape deck... things badass... even has a knob for D-BASS

how many of your "alpines/eclipse/denon" headunits have a bass boost knob?

oldschool > *

any pics of that? just cause i think i had the same deck years ago. the last tape deck i bought. never even had a sub then, just 6.5's up front and 2 6x9's in a box in the rear. d-bass ftw. lol