Mix tapes

My 240SX still has the original cassette deck.

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In high school I had a car with a cassette deck, this would have been late 90's so thats not real strange, but tapes were pretty well dead. I was cleaning out my closet and found my old tape of Beastie Boys; License to ill. So I popped in to listen to it, this was my first time using the tape player. So I listen to it for a few days, then when I go to eject it the eject button doesn't work. Now on this radio the only way to stop the tape from playing is to eject the tape. It absolutely wouldn't come out. My only option was to replace the radio, but I was 16 and broke, so I drove around listening to the beastie boys for like four months. But I still think Paul Revere is the shizz.

Not much wrong with having License to Ill stuck in your tape deck. If I had a choice, though, I'd go with Paul's Boutique.

The 85 Accord I had in college had the factory Honda tape deck, and tapes would get stuck in it constantly. I eventually gave up on fishing them out and went to Highland Appliance and bought a Clarion deck to replace it.

I didn't really do mix tapes, per se. My thing was recording songs I liked off the radio. I still have some tapes of mid-80s hits recorded from WHYT, WRIF, and WLLZ somewhere. Of course, I don't have anything to play them on. They'd probably break if I tried anyhow.

I kinda miss cassettes in a way. There was something to be said about the tangible, mechanical insanity that was the cassette player, and all the clicks and noises bring back all sorts of nostalgia for me.

My sister used to have a bitchin' 1988 Firebird Formula and there was ALWAYS a hair metal cassette in the deck. In that car, for some reason, the factory sound system sounded fantastic. It had a Gain fader on the dash from the factory, and with that cranked, it sounded unbelievable (for the time). Seriously, Ratt, Whitesnake, and Dokken never sounded better.

I picked up an old circa 1989-90 Yamaha "MacGruber"-style pullout head unit earlier this year at a swap meet. It is also bitchin', and may find its way into either my Trans Am or my CSX someday. Couldn't pass it up even as a paperweight for $2!

And I have Paul's Boutique on cassette. My favorite Hip-Hop album of all time right there.

F'ing Highland Appliance. I haven't thought of them in years. The biggest name in the game at that time.

I have a past Detroit based friend who's mother formed her own business that put on demos inside every Highland Appliance on weekends. Specifically, they put a woman in each store that taught/showed/demonstrated how and what to do with these new boxes called Microwave ovens (aka Amana Radar Range).

I bought a brand new album on cassette last year. This one.

My 2000 ZX2SR had a tape deck.

gearheadmb wrote: My only option was to replace the radio, but I was 16 and broke, so I drove around listening to the beastie boys for like four months.

I had Master of Puppets on for six months.

Not the album, the song.

I put the factory tape deck and EQ back into my '88 626 turbo. It really ties the dash together. I had to test it but only tape I could find in my house was Amy Grant.

I'm not sure you can handle my mixtape.

My 03 SAAB has a tape deck and a CD slot. I have been using the tape desk to listen to stuff off of my phone for a while now.

In reply to Rusted_Busted_Spit:

Just last weekend I found my cd case and threw "summer 2010" in the wife's car while driving up to my parents. Where else can you hear fat bottomed girls, what a wonderful world, and ol dirty basted on the same cd. And funny enough it did have a bunch of beastie Boys on it as well.

Knurled wrote:

gearheadmb wrote: My only option was to replace the radio, but I was 16 and broke, so I drove around listening to the beastie boys for like four months.

I had Master of Puppets on for six months. Not the album, the song.

If the master of puppets album got stuck in mine i would probably still be driving the car.

I still have my Denon 3-head dual capstan deck from the late 80's and it still works. Every now and then I'll pop a tape in it. Last car I had with a cassette deck was the '88 626 LX, and that's been gone about 12 years now.

I found an old stash of cassettes while unloading from the move. The only one that survived enough to play was a Meat Puppets tape. All the other ones got all melty.

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote: I found an old stash of cassettes while unloading from the move. The only one that survived enough to play was a Meat Puppets tape. All the other ones got all melty.

backwater on it? i like the meat puppets

In reply to patgizz:

Yes, it's a good album.