Re: cassette nostalgia

For me they brought a strange realization.
Todays teenagers are not defined by the music they listen to like previous generations were.
Do teens even still have stereos in their bedrooms?
The video iPOD will not help.
Sad end to a terrific era of LPs, sharing, culture definition.

I work with a lot of kids in their early 20s and when some of them have been over to my house, they were of course stunned by the wall of albums. No shocker there since none of them has most likely ever bought an album.

But I'll tell ya what really made me feel old: sometimes when I buy an album, I'll dub it onto cassette so I can listen to it at work. One day a couple of years ago one of the aforementioned 22-year-olds catches sight of one and says "Man, a cassette tape - THAT's old school!"

I suppose the c-90 is pretty old school.
Yet, that's the deck option I chose in my Camry.

I'm still driving a '93 honda with a cassette deck only, but even if I did buy a new car, it'd damn sure have a tape deck as part of the sound system.

Definite thread drift here: I don't know about others, but I've never been able to fully make the switch from the cassette mix tape to the mix CD. I've made plenty of mix CDs for friends, but since the early 80s I've periodically made mix tapes for myself as a kind of sampler of stuff I'd recently obtained. Back then, I used to make one every month and since I had 3 or 4 tapes for that purpose, each one would last 3 or 4 months before getting dubbed over with new stuff. I still cling to that practice, but these days those things only get made a few times a year. Seems wasteful to do it on CD since generally you can't dub over them and I really don't need to have a permanent memento of what I was listening to in the 3rd quarter of 2005....

I just want to tell Rhett that I've been looking for a new (used ) car for a while now & I did notice that some cars from the late 90s'-early 00's did offer both a CD player & cassette deck, although the newer ones probably don't.

Not surprised. When we bought my wife's Toyota new in 2001, it came with a cassette/CD deck, but I imagine it's getting harder and harder to get 'em.