The switch from cassettes to cd's - Freeze-Frame Radio

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

The switch from cassettes to cd's

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Wow Sparky, you were a late convert hey??!?!!

I switched way back in the late 80's. I bought 2 CD's in 1988 and I knew after the first one I could never pay money for a cassette again.

I too had probably 1,000 cassettes, but sold em all and slowly replaced em on CD.

An interesting note, the LAST audio tape manufacturer in the US shut down last month according to Billboard magazine, and they did so without notice. It's causing quite an uproar in the industry.

I still keep a cassette player on hand even now though, because there's so many great albums that were never put on CD, I like to buy the cassette off ebay, run it through cool-edit, clean up the hiss & make a CD out of it. So I imagine I'll still have use for the good old cassette for another decade or so!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

WOW! I thought I was the Johnny come lately! I waited until 1995, a full decade past the advent of cd players, to go and get one. I had insisted up and down that cds were a fad, the next betamax or laser disk, and that I would not get suckered into getting involved with these. It took me a full decade to realize it was not a fad.

Funny thing, a decade past that, this past christmas, I got a record player. Went back to the old school!

Sparky · Phat Cat EL Presidente

Yah, I was a late bloomer, I was still trying to hold on to a little of the past. We used to cruise the country roads with the Craco under the dash tape player belting out Bon Jovi and exploring the country side. Believe it or not I still have a fold out 8 track player in the basement. Of course you have to put popscicle sticks on the top so it dosn't sound like the chipmunks and every once in a while the tape will break and disinigrate but still works!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

This is kind of neat- but at my aunt and uncle's house, the basement rec-room has remained exactly the same as it was since the 1970s. It is truely a time tunnel. There is an 8 track player down there with Led Zepplin 4 in it, and Van Halen I as well. It has become a tradition at Christmas that me and the cousins head down in the basement for awhile, shoot pool, and listen to Led Zep 4. We have been doing this for 30 yrs.

Trish · The Procrastinating Red-Head

I won some CD's from a radio station in Arkansas when I was in high school. I thought "What the heck am I going to do with these, I'll never be able to afford one?", so I gave them away to the people that I used to babysit for because they had a killer CD system. Who'd have thought that you'd be able to buy one now for so cheap? Now we have a CD player for every member of the household. I still have cassette's because that's what I have in the grocery getter, but I'm starting to switch over. Now my goal is to get all of the Duran Duran albums that I have on cassette on CD. Some of them are hard to find on CD. It's a process of love.