Note to Bands:Stop Supporting A Dead Format

[earthdog70]

Cassettes suck, who still buys these

Cock Sparrer:

http://www.piratespressrecords.com/stor ... es-c-1_53/

Pixies:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/0 ... ette-tape/

Why not just do 8-tracks

[crus]

Kvlt black metal fans mostly. My last car had a cassette player. It was nice listening to albums I acquired back in the heyday of cassettes that I never bothered getting CD copies of.

[lewdd]

this says the guy who doesn't even have a turntable let alone a cassette deck.

[Janelle]

Cassettes suck, who still buys these

Cock Sparrer:

http://www.piratespressrecords.com/stor ... es-c-1_53/

Pixies:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/0 ... ette-tape/

Why not just do 8-tracks

I still like cassettes. I'm a weirdo and have always bought them at record stores used, even if I have the material already on CD or vinyl, if I really like the release. Then I'm interviewing some bands and find out they're bringing back cassettes; I must say, I was kinda happy. But I guess now it's the "cool" thing to do but whatever. Hey, just cool to keep tangible, physical formats, no matter what. Sometimes from labels/bands I talk to it seems the format that's most outmoded or that people don't want is CD! ha

[version sound]

I thought this thread was going to be about punk rock.

[yourenotevil]

punk and hc bands do lots of tapes and even snoop put his latest album on tape. it's def made a comeback, but i agree it is a shitty format.

[NotBaker]

[danny]

i thought this was going to be about facebook.

[jason powell]

Until I got married in 1995, just about every piece of music I owned, except for 13 albums on vinyl, was on cassette tapes. They were the most convenient way to listen to music for me. My wife had cd's, I never had bought any before marrying her. I don't think I bought tapes after that unless it was a demo or something hard to find. I think that even up until around 2005, tapes were a viable way to distribute a demo.

They aren't now. And I don't miss tapes. The most convenient form of music for me these days is mp3 music files. I don't miss cd's either. I still like vinyl, but I almost never play it.

[dave123]

For me, the tape has one use... the demo tape. I know that the CDR is easier and better quality, but I always liked the demo tape and never the CDR demo. Even then, when a band's demo gets the vinyl treatment, I am happy to get rid of the tape version.

[Michele]

I love when small bands release a tape as a demo or EP release, better if people can also download mp3s from the bandcamp for free... I'm kinda feticist about these stuff, but it must be cheap as it was supposed to be.
btw, Industrial/noise artists kept releasing tapes all over the decades.