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That's awesome. I'm still a tape addict cause I love the sound of analog. Even when the tape has some wear and it starts to sound kind of warped. Tapes are making a comeback. A lot of my friends in bands are releasing tapes and selling them. It's slightly cheaper than CD's, and the nostalgia factor makes selling them easy.
But you need this decomposing old hardware to play them!
I have SO MANY good tapes - but I liked to play them on the boat, and that tape player died [sadface]. I gotta find a replacement one of these years... I bet like you pointed out with VCRs and walkmans and all that, there probably still are cassette player radio thingies out there, but now they're an overpriced specialty item or whatever. Which is gay.
Some guy was selling one that might have been adequate at the last marina swap meet I went to [perhaps the last one ever the way things have been...] but I didn't trust his "it totally works great!" because why did he take it out if it works so great?! Or he stole it maybe, but he looked to fairly complected for that sort of thing...
Not too sure. I know brand new walkman's can be had for reasonable prices so maybe the market is still affordable for tape decks as well.
I just found out they still sell CB radios, and those have a greater range than VHF! Now I wonder why boats don't have CB radios instead of VHF... I'll have to ask my radio friend about that, he knows all the things about everything radio communication and he even has a SSB [ham] radio on his boat. Fucking fancylad. But the missus wants some spare handheld VHFs so I'm shopping for those now. I wonder if I can find a place that also sells car/boat stereos with cassette players!
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