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not all of it, but a large amount. for the past few weeks I've been slowly going through my old cassette collection. over the years I've gotten CD's of a lot of them and age has reduced many to a squeeky mess. no point in keeping those. also dumping a lot of old mix tapes as well. some of these have been with me since grade school. yeaterday I filled a trash bag with the likes of Cheap Trick, Van Halen, the Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Billy Squier and the Kinks. a lot of the mix tapes had hand drawn covers which were funny to see again.

I know it's not that big a deal to dump these. most sqeaked like crazy or sounded just plain awful but I'm one to hang onto things. it was kind of like saying goodbye to an old friend.

*taps*

how can you get rid of the kinks and cheap trick?  i hope that you listened to 'she's tight' one last time before you tossed it out.  :P

i feel for you den... letting go of shit like that is hard.

Sorry about your loss.  ;)

ah well. I had to make more room for games right?

Very very true. But how many more can you get when you have 4k+ games?

well there's 16,327 in our database. I've got a LONG way to go.

:o

MUST... HAVE... THEM... ALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



sorry

You should be for that one.

yes, forgive my greed.

Not greed more like cheese.

I love cheese. probably why my cholesterol is so high.

You love cheese because thats more of it.

a good portion of my interests and hobbies fall under the "cheese" category.

I've actually gone out and purchased a lot of cassettes over the last few years because they are cheap as dirt.  I only play them once, though, to record them as MP3's, which I fix up a bit.  That way they don't deteriorate at all over time, they actually sound better after fixing them up, I can flip from song to song easily, and I can burn them to mix CD's if I want.  And, the RIAA can't come after me because I do own the original, and my files are created by yours truly.

I'm not that high tech I still play them on regular old cassette player. From time to time I still whip out the turntable to spin a little vinyl.

Sweet Jesus!!!!

Joking my wife collects records. And she plays them every once and awhile.

Oh I listen to my vinyl all the time.  That's different than cassettes, though, and vinyl sounds better with age than cassettes do (when properly cared for).  I've got some great classic rock and big band on vinyl.  It's tough to find good stuff in the wild, but sometimes it can be worth it - like when I got the Blue Jays album (John Lodge & Justin Hayward) for $1.00.  That's a little-known gem.

(http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1301/cover_1245193182004.jpg)

those guys are from the Moody Blues, what's the story on that album?

Side project of some sort I believe.  Some creepy guy at GoodWill recommended it to me, so I went ahead and bought it.  If you like The Moody Blues and similar prog rock, you should definitely keep your eyes out on that one.  So basically my answer is I don't know.  I just know that it is good, and I believe it was between albums with The Moody Blues.

I sift through the vinyl at thrifts once in a while. around here it seems all they have are Barbra Striesand or Barry Manilow or records that look like they've been wet, i think the last one I bought was Bob & Doug MacKenzie's Great White North album. I did see a Beatles Yesterday & Today once and thought I'd stumbled onto one with the butcher cover covered up. upon closer inspection it appeared someone else had already thought the same thing as it was slightly peeled.