What Was The Last New Cassette You Bought?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

And when. I'm interested as to when this unloved format finally faded from purchasing view. (Blank tapes dont count obv.)

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Beautiful Garbage" by Garbage (£4.99) from Virgin, Cornmarket Street, about this time last year.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate Bush, 'Sensual World'

― dave q, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(Tom, John Cage would disagree! hah!)

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i bought tlc's "fanmail" on tape in bangkok when i was doing the globetrotting thing and had only a walkman.

― michael wells (michael w.), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Double Nickle on the Dime - Minutemen. Back in 1986. I'd just moved to London and my turntable was elsewhere. Nothing since. And no interesting anecdote to go with this.

― Yes/No Interlude (Yes/No Interlude), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

in fact, quite a huge proportion of my collection consists of cassettes - 16 years of daily Oxford-London commuting; the only place i could really listen to albums properly was on the oxford city link/oxford tube; one of the few advantages of the evening 2 1/2 hour crawl up the westway, hanger lane, borehamwood ect.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah mine was a tape of Turkish folk music in Istanbul a cpl of years ago but my last in a UK record shop was Kenickie's "Get In" whenever that was released (98 I think).

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

for "borehamwood" read "beaconsfield."

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I've actually never bought a cassette. Never liked the format.

― David (David), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

There might've been a more recent one, but the last one that springs to mind is Stevie Wonder's 'Characters' (1987). Extra tracks which weren't on the LP.

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I think the last one must have been The Scabs ( Waffle land Replacements Lite Muzak).

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I used to buy cassettes nearly exclusively from about 1985 until 1992 or so, when I finally got a decent turntable.

Think the last album I bought on cassette was Blur's Parklife. (Oh, when it was still cool, and months before Girls & Boys was big hit, to maintain my indie cred and all that... considering I'd bought Modern Life on import CD when I didn't even own a CD player...)

― kate, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Either Blue Rodeo's Diamond Mine or Cyndi Lauper's Shes So Unusual.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Frog and Toad by His Name Is Alive. There are a lot of treasures in the Time Stereo (www.timestereo.com) catalog, and some of them are cassette-only (HNIA's Michigan's Finest, which contains most?/all? of the Nice Day EP, is also a tape you need).

― Ernest P., Friday, 1 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Duck and Cover Compilation for $US .99

Husker Du, Black Flag, etc. doing covers.

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Friday, 1 November 2002 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

INXS Greatest Hits in 1994!

― blueski, Friday, 1 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"New" makes this a difficult question -- I know I bought a used tape of Springsteen's Lucky Town about three years ago. Ah yes, now I remember, I bought four new Slabco cassettes as part of an Xmas reissue around 1998 -- two Sukpatch tapes, a Land of the Loops tape, and Stinky Fire Engine. That stuff is cassette-only to this day, in fact. Some good songs in there.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

cocteau twins- victorialand on cassete for 2 quid (sometime last year). it was second hand.

first hand albums on cassette and you're talking 3 to four years back but i can't remmeber what.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star, I think.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Farm - Spartacus in 1993.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I've bought very few because, you know, the sound of cassettes is crap.. But I think the last two were purchases concurrently: Graham Parker & the Shot and Flock of Seagulls 'Listen' - each were $.50 - would have been in 1985, I think. Still haven't listened to either of them.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Beherit Drawing Down The Moon, a few months ago.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur - Blur, I think

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It could be:

Alice in Chains - (I can't recall the title!!)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

'Things that go bump in the night' by 'Allstars'

― Paul R, Friday, 1 November 2002 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Legitimate releases: "Your Cassette Pet" BowWowWow, 1980, and only then because they weren't releasing the damned thing in any other formats.

Semi-legitimate releases: something by a local (Reading) band called JoJo Namoza around '85 (do you remember them Dr. C or would they have been after your time?)

Bootlegs: probably either Killing Joke's Unperverted Pantomine or Theatre Of Hate Live At The Lyceum, around '80 / '81

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 November 2002 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

a few months ago at the goodwill i bought control, strange free world, and welcome to the pleasuredome.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(i almost got an extra copy of dare and the first simple minds alb this weekend, but i was .50 short.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Judas Priest "Unleashed in the East" about 2 weeks ago which is far more recent than any other format purchase. I like cassettes; they play in my car. I always look for them in thrift shops and road stops as sort of disposable driving music.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this spring, 5 Bollywood soundtracks for 10 bucks from Fullworth's - the big Indian grocery/kitchenware store in Parkdale. Selected on the basis of the cover art alone. Don't listen to em much since getting a couple of good compilation cd's & a 2-disc best of Asha B.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey everybody Tom asked for the last NEW cassette you bought -- almost everything here is second hand.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, who cares what he asks? ;-) Shit, I think I bought a few secondhand tapes... they were crap. I think one was a hardcore comp or something. I frigging hate that format.

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was on the dole in South London (around 1996) I used to buy a few cassettes, because I didn't have a CD player and the only record shop nearby was Our Price which didn't have vinyl.

So I've got a few cassette singles (mostly really shit post-Britpop band, e.g. the Seahorses) and a few albums (e.g. some Kinks compilation, Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot', Bowie's 'Low'). I think the Kinks was the last one. The fact I've got 'Low' on cassette bugs me because I've got all Bowie's other records on vinyl and I like to be consistent. Also, I never play it because apart from these few items I have hundreds of C90s that are 80% blank and 20% filled with 4 track experiments somewhere in the middle, and I don't know what's on where, and I've put every cassete I own in a binbag at the back of a cupboard to await the day I can be bothered sorting the whole mess out.

I have never bought music on cassettes before or since 1996.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"we're in it for the money" by supergrass. about, oh, 5 years ago i was delivering furniture for a living and all we had was a tape deck and am radio in the truck. life was simple then.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 1 November 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I get a few secondhand ones for the car every so often -- last one was Cupid & Psyche 85. Last time I purchased new cassettes was mid 89 before I finally got a turnable and if I remember correctly they were Doolittle and Surfer Rosa -- traded in shortly after for the vinyl copies. I remember Doolittle had a great sound on cassette though. Transparent glass cassettes had a better sound than the black ones for some reason.

― David Gunnip, Friday, 1 November 2002 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought the soundtrack for the Naked Lunch recently - it was new but very cheap 63 cents and I've never seen it on disc.

I also bought a number of tapes in India as a lot of stuff wasn't easily available on CD and if it was it was about four times the price. And I couldn't play them while there obviously.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 1 November 2002 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a tape of Roy Montgomery and Kirk Lake from stormy Records, Windy And Carl's store.

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 1 November 2002 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Marlene Dietrich + Howling Wolf compilations (not as a duo unfortunately) in a bargain bin earlier this year.

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 1 November 2002 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I released a cassette on Hospital Productions a few months ago. Does that count? Other people bought it.

― Dave Fischer, Friday, 1 November 2002 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a cassette?

― Callum (Callum), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The last new tape I bought was The Charlatans' Us & Us Only in 1999 because it was only a fiver, a pricing ploy the record companies were occasionally using to boost chart positions before the format was put to sleep.

Far too much of the best of my collection is on cassette - why does poverty coincide with taste? I bought a car back in May and until I become so insanely wealthy that can I stick a minidisc player in there (I wonder about this when I see the 8 track in the Simpsons' car) I'm revisting my tasteful youth. World Of Twist were good, weren't they? Fluke too, obviously everyone knows about The Techno Rose Of Blighty (sweet, sweet "Philly") but 6 Wheels On My Wagon is another classic.

― Mike (mratford), Friday, 1 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it was something by james. i love cassettes.

― cecilia, Friday, 1 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

My first recollection was of the Talking Heads' Naked, then i remembered my road trip to Maine back in the summer of '92 when i picked up a Italian compilation of Mel Tormé from a roadside greasy spoon. I must've played that damned thing 30 times before i got home. It's no wonder i can't get the wife pregnant.

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 1 November 2002 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Queensryche, EMPIRE. CD player on the fritz, turntable in storage. Long time ago.

― matt riedl (veal), Friday, 1 November 2002 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Primal Scream's "Vanishing Point" in 1997. I still bought quite a few cassettes up to that time, largely because of quasi-poverty.

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 1 November 2002 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a George Jones Best of at a truck stop when I was driving across the country.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 1 November 2002 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think a few things from Mike Landucci's clearance sale earlier this year. Before that, it had been years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Negativland's Helter Stupid.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My first recollection was of the Talking Heads' Naked...

This was probably the second CD I ever bought, but as for cassettes, I picked up about a dozen at the Rhino parking lot sale a couple years ago - two rave comps, Chris Mars, The Hellacopters, cartoonist Linda Berry (spoken word, I assume, haven't played it yet), Ozric Tentacles, and some others. They were 25 cents each, and I buy for curiosity or to have a car version.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 2 November 2002 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Nas's Nastradamus. And yeah, maybe three good songs were on that sucker.

― Claire (Claire Miccio), Saturday, 2 November 2002 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The last time I bought any newish release on cassette would have to be 1992 while I was living in Kingston, and I remember buying Talk Talk - Laughing Stock, Adrian Belew - Young Lions (though I replaced with the cd less than 2 months later when I saw it for five bucks), and School Of Fish.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 2 November 2002 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I never bought them, always preferring albums and then taping them myself, one on each side of a C-90. (How rockist is that?) But just last month, I bought Supercollider's (the L.A. band) Aluminum on cassette off the Emigre website on close-out for $2, only because they had sold out of it on CD. (I got their other album on CD for $4 on the same order.) Before that, I'm pretty sure my only cassette buys date back to a brief fling with cassingles when they were fairly new - Prince's "Kiss", the Jets' "Crush on You", "I Can't Wait", "Life in a Northern Town". Must have been 1986.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 2 November 2002 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Dump - That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?

At the time, it was a cassette-only release. The bassist for Yo La Tengo covering a bunch of Prince songs done really lo-fi. Totally 100% Quality.

― Evan, Saturday, 2 November 2002 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have that. "When U Were Mine" and "Pop Life" are k-excellent.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 November 2002 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits vol. 3, at a truck stop in early September.

― Douglas, Saturday, 2 November 2002 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

a couple today: cocteau twins' heaven or las vegas and Eric B and rakim 'paid in full'. both for 2 quid (2nd hand)!!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bends, I think. Brought in Heathrow Our Price midway through a slightly mental Chichester - Portsmouth - Southampton - Heathrow- Horsham - Brighton drive in 1995(?). I liked what I'd heard of it, didn't own it, and we needed something to play in the car that wasn't the jungle mix tape we'd already listened to twice over.

― RickyT (RickyT), Saturday, 2 November 2002 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe it was This Is Hardcore in 1999.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 2 November 2002 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

LL Cool J, "Phenomenon," after I heard the title track in my aerobics class.

me: "Who does this?"
instructor(rolling eyes): "LL COOL J????!!!"

― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 2 November 2002 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

The last tape I bought was also "This is Hardcore" in '99 when I rented a car to drive from Manhattan to Maine for a wedding. I also picked up Suede's "Head Music" and AC/DC "Back in Black" for the same trip.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 3 November 2002 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

'Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics' for 99p in HMV.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 3 November 2002 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'Pulp - We Love Life'
'The B52s - The B52s'

― I. Eken (I. Eken), Sunday, 3 November 2002 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Assuming this thread doesn't refer to cassette only releases (of which my last purchase was Father's "Nature Boy" tape), the last two were Beat Happening's Jamboree and Screaming Trees EP, on the same day, about 8 years ago.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 4 November 2002 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I released a cassette on Hospital Productions a few months ago. Does that count? Other people bought it.

People bought it even though the catalog listed it as unlistenable? Amazing.

And are you ever going to do a performance of that piece? (How long would you stretch it out live?)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

New: Ash 1977 in 1995 (only about 3 pounds, in an airport)
Second hand: C86 for a quid in some charity shop in Mile End.

Don't really like cassettes much, not since I've been truly minidiscified.

― Charlie (Charlie), Monday, 4 November 2002 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Just ordered the almost-complete Miracle Legion back catalog; only available on cassette.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Wow, uh, maybe the "Baby Got Back" and "Smells Like Nirvana" cassingles for a friend's birthday in June 1992?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Found a shrink-wrapped Strictly Rhythm compilation tape for $1.99 Canadian a few months back. It had one vocal house tune that I'd been looking for for ages. Sadly, my memory of the song was better than the actual song itself.
I hate when that happens.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

That Italian guy who did that song that was a hit in a salsa version later on.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

some cassette-only bush tetras things from ROIR. like a year ago.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Gianluca Grignani: Destino Paraiso

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago)

About as bad as it looks, if I remember, but then I like the Mickey Tavaras cover a lot, so I shouldn't talk.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Harry Pussy - Vigilance!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i got some cheap bollywood tapes at Fullworth's in Parkdale aka the best store in the world

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Sir Mix-a-Lot "Seminar"

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Best of Naked Eyes - 75 cents.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

most recently I bought a used xtc greatest hits cassette for a buck or so. but in terms of 'new' cassettes - deltron 3030 (on accident)

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Roxette - Look Sharp at a garage sale.

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Either "Death to the Pixies" or "When I was Born for the 7th Time", sometime in 1997.

― Richard C (avoid80), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Wow, great question. Probably "Monster" when it came out. So, uh, September 1994?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Only bought one cassette since acquiring a CD player in '90, and that was Weather Report's Heavy Weather around Christmas of 1995. I was visiting parents for the holidays and craved new tunes but was limited to cassettes. Heavy Weather was the most interesting-looking thing I could find, so I bought it. It sucked.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Tommy Keene's Songs From The Film at Columbus Farmers Market in NJ ... probably circa 1994.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago)

I just got Blonde On Blonde for five bucks at Wal-Mart a couple days ago.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

$5 for a tape?!?!

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

a lata mangeshkar box set, two years ago

― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Most recently a few years back in Miami when I happened on a Chuck Wagon Gang (white gospel) cassette -- 'Heaven Will Surely Be Worth It All.' My granddad used to listen to them.

I also had to buy some on vacation in 1999 when I couldn't get a rental car with a CD player. 'Celebrity Skin,' 'Sticky Fingers,' 'Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits,' Sinatra's 'Only the Lonely,' 'Aretha Sings the Blues,' a Jobim comp, Redd Foxx.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago)

I just ordered Christina Carter "L'Etoile de Mer" today from Eclipse. Before that, I think it was the Dreamhouse & L. Rad tapes I got at Pasture Fest in July.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I bought a compilation of early '80s French hits at a thrift store in Ohio last month. (But it wasn't "new", I don't think. I have no idea what the last new one I bought was.)

― chuck, Friday, 17 September 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago)

oops, i meant early '90s (vanessa paradis "joe le taxi," pauline esther, etc.) unless those were late '80s.

― chuck, Friday, 17 September 2004 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Merle Haggard's Greatest Hits, $5.99 from a Flying J in West Memphis, Arkansas. It was a worthy impulse buy for the drive back to Little Rock.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

The price difference on the few cassettes they still have at Wal-Mart is hysterical. From 3 to 12 dollars.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago)

TWELVE DOLLARS?

That is fucking absurd!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago)

some were as if not more expensive than the cds!

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:18 (twenty years ago)

and let me just say that it is PURE bullshit that the EP '74 Jailbreak costs the same as all the AC/DC full-lengths. I want to complete my Bon Scott-era collection but not if they're going to pretend that its an entire album.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago)

man, i got like 4 thin lizzy tapes from a dude on the street a few weeks ago! shit rules.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago)

AC/DC '74 Jailbreak from a truckstop in Wisconsin. I considered stealing it, but decided it wouldn't be worth it to try to save $5 and maybe get arrested in Wisconsin for stealing an AC/DC tape from a truck stop.

― Mike Dixon, Friday, 17 September 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

The last new one was Ray Price "16 Biggest Hits" for my stepdad at Geiger's general store in Laytonville last year. I only got it on cassette because they didn't have the CD. I don't remember what I paid for it but I'd say less than $10.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Talk Talk - Laughing Stock on Ebay a couple months ago

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I guess I should add that I ALMOST ordered a Hair Police tape today, too, but I didn't, deciding I have enough Hair Police tapes for now.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

wow, been a long time....probably something from the Columbia Record and Tape Club. Houses of the Holy?

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Metallica - "One" Cassingle in '94

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 18 September 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Ruins "Stonehenge" and "Burning Stone"
Boredoms "Soul Discharge"
Sleep "Holy Mountain"
The Fall "Our Nation's Saving Grace"
Shonen Knife s/t

...all brand new and sealed for $5 each.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Ash 1977 because it was significantly cheaper than the CD at the time.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bought a few at Tower last year, 3/$10:

Boston: Boston
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
Journey: Escape
Van Halen: I
Grandmaster Flash: Greatest Hits
VA: Have a Nice Day (not sure which volume)

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ruins "Stonehenge" and "Burning Stone"
Boredoms "Soul Discharge"
Sleep "Holy Mountain"
The Fall "Our Nation's Saving Grace"
Shonen Knife s/t
...all brand new and sealed for $5 each.

-- MESTEMA (mrdavewhit...), October 21st, 2005.

hey - that sleep album is my last, too! i thought i was buying the cd earlier this year on ebay for $1, but i was buying the tape. oh well.

― petesmith (plsmith), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Tin Machine's first album. Or maybe it was "Groovies' Greatest Grooves."

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Friday, 21 October 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

The first New Order Peel Session at Coconuts for a Dollar.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

Project Pat 'Layin' Da Smack Down', Nas 'Illmatic' and Nas 'God's Son' a few weeks ago

― amon (eman), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Tough question. Cassettes are just ::gone:: now, aren't they (though I still have mountains of them in my closet).

I think the last one I bought was for a road trip somewhere.....and I think it was, somewhat inexplicably, The Lion & the Cobra by Sinead O'Connor (I seem to recall the need to hear "Troy" playing really fucking loud.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

It was at least 20 years ago — Crown of Creation, Jefferson Airplane.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

this week:

nekromantie - demo 1987 (2005 reissue out of colombia)
torturium - deathcult's temple

both on manufactured cassettes, not dubbed on tdk or whatever. cassettes are becoming a metal fetish item these days.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

New: probably Radiohead "The Bends" although I'd owned a CD player since, er, since Björk started putting out CD singles & I had to buy one.

Last: Picked up 3 B-52's albums from charity shop for a pittance. A massively wise decision for the awesomeness of the first album alone. I still get them now if it's an artist/album I've wanted to hear for years. 50p to make a decision on a possible CD purchase later? Worth it.

I only have two tiny (1ft x 1.5) drawers of them now. I used to have two full-wardrobe size/length drawers full of them. God only knows what crap must have been in there but most of it probably isn't worth remembering now.

― login name (fandango), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream at a barnes and noble about 8 years ago.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

You guys are weird. I buy cassettes all the time. They never cost more than a dollar and sometimes cost a quarter! Last month I bought _Songs from the Big Chair_, _Toto IV_, _Way To Go 1986_, a Mighty Lemondrops tape, a Neds Atomic Dustbin tape...

― Guayaquil (eephus), Saturday, 22 October 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't remember the last new cassette I bought if you poked me in the gut with a letter opener.

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 22 October 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Gangwe Mobb
Professor J

They each cost like 8 bucks, but they were probably shipped by boat from Tanzania so I shouldn't complain.

― Gavin, Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

The first Elastica album.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

live skull - positraction on ebay

― fffnnnsss, Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Either the Wrangler Brutes tape-only album (which I've deemed my top record of the last five years in another thread on here, and which has just been reissued on vinyl) or an Ultra Dolphins tape, I forget

― DJ Mencap0))), Sunday, 23 October 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Tapes are brilliant right now. All kinds of people are still scavenging for 2nd hand vinyl, so you've got to be damn lucky in charity shops, and everybody knows CD's are shite 2nd hand. Thousands of quality tapes being dumped out everywhere. And so cheap! Plus, who gives a shit about condition with tapes??

Found The Clean Compilation yesterday too. 50p.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Momus - Don't Stop The Night when it just came out, only one I ever bought.

― svend (svend), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Prince, 1999, about six months ago. $.25!

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Purchased in the British Heart Foundation charity shop, Clapham Junction, Monday of last week, mint unplayed original cassette issues of The Zoo Uncaged: 1978-2002 (Zoo Records' "greatest hits" comp with early Teardrops & Bunnymen, Big in Japan, Wild Swans etc.) and Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue. Total cost: £1.35. There was also a similarly mint cassette of Terry Reid's River going for 85p but I didn't bother with that 'cos I got sent the CD reissue when it came out. Still sitting there if anyone's interested.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

MESTEMA is so OTM. I pick up entire tape collections from garage sales for insane prices like $5 for a hundred. I discover so much great music that way. They're disposable, spend .50 and who cares if it's crap and you might discover something amazing.

Last NEW new tape I bought was Skinny Puppy the Process in 1995. Last "new sealed" was some 80's thing like Devo for $5 a few years ago. Last used tape I bought was Concrete Blonde some time this month.

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, I think it was You're Living All Over Me when it first came out in 1987 when they were still plain old Dinosaur. Or it might have been SST's Seven Inch Wonders of The World compilation (not sure how Overkill qualified as a 'wonder of the world' but the rest of it was gold).

Ach no - it was probably a Eugene Chadbourne tape from the man himself in about 1990. I think I wanted to have his electric rake version of 'Naima'.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

Last brand new cassette was Pinky & Perky's "Reet Petite"/"It Only Takes A Minute" (May 1993), because a friend of mine was responsible for it and I was feeling loyal. (It peaked at #47, oh well.)

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am curious why there is a standard issue cassette of the Traveling Wilburys album retailing for £14 at MVE when I can think of at least three charity shops in the surrounding (Notting Hill) area who are drowning in copies of said cassette at 25p a throw.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Magma - Live
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville + Jane From Occupied Europe + Train Out of it

... 99p each, Missing (as in the shop) in Glasgow, about five years ago, same day

― BarabadabaDadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think the last cassette I bought was C-86, in 1997. It was £3. I don't think I'd bought a tape before that since school, probably something like Dixie Narco EP by Primal Scream. I got a CD player in 1991 and never went back to tapes after that.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty in 1999. I had just moved to Australia and only had my walkman to listen to music on. I didn't have it for long as when I parted company with my travelling companions in Adelaide I left the tape in their car stereo. They went to Darwin, and I went to Melbourne where I've lived ever since. I've still got the case.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

everybody knows CD's are shite 2nd hand

otm*!
everyone stop rummaging in cd bins for your own sake obv. thx

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Most of the albums from about 1991 to 1997 that I own are on cassette. CDs were just too expensive. Most recent new tape I bought (I *think* it was new) was Redd Kross' Teen Babes From Monsanto, on eBay earlier this year. Most recently released cassette I own is probably Radiohead's Amnesiac.

― Patrick (Patrick), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: Tell a lie - the last new cassette I bought was Faithless "God Is A DJ" (Sept 1998), for the "Fast Mix" that was unavailable on other formats.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Just received MBV's Loveless on cassette. Haven't listened to it yet.

― dreamsonvhs, Saturday, 8 September 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

Hmmm, "Only Shallow" on cassette doesn't sound different at all from my CD copy.

― dreamsonvhs, Saturday, 8 September 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

Bought one last night, by a hardcore band called Vogue, at their gig. It's decent. I've bought quite a lot of new releases on cassette this year

― DJ Mencap, Saturday, 8 September 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

Perhaps the second Colourfield album 7 years ago.

― zeus, Saturday, 8 September 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

foo fighters s/t maybe

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago)

"Music Sound Better With You" cassingle and "Who On Earth is Tom Baker" audio book, both in 1998.
For myself, anyway. I bought my mum a couple of Harry Potter audio books since.

― DavidM, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

by "new" do you mean not-used? Because I buy used cassettes all the time for my car.

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

Bad Religion, 'Stranger Than Fiction' in 2000. I paid the last four months of my parents car lease when they got a new one, so I couldn't put in a CD player, and I owned no tapes... so I grabbed the first one cheap cassette I found at the store and listened to it and the radio for those months.

― milo z, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago)

I bought a few tapes the past year of stuff that wasn't on Vinyl/cd (at the time at least) Warmer Milks, Souvenir's Young America, Marzuraan (live).

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 8 September 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago)

MBV's Loveless sounds so nasty in my Dad's mid-90's Nissan Pathfinder. The feedback is soooo high-pitched it overwhelms everything, most importantly the melodies. It's just noise in my Dad's old car. But on my boombox it sounds normal. I think the critics of this record either heard it or hear it this way.

― dreamsonvhs, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

Last...Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope, I think? I'm pretty sure the first album I bought on cd was Will Smith's Big Willie Style, so that must be the point I switched over.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 9 September 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

Last bought new: The Empire Records soundtrack, in summer 1996.

Last acquired: Tim Curry, Fearless, from a yard sale, spring 2005.

― Joseph McCombs, Sunday, 9 September 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

Miles Devens - Atlantic Woman
Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramdilier
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies
V.A. - A Thousand Colors Blaze (6x cs w/ hair police, prurient, sick llama)

+ a LOT of trades i do, comes with running a tiny ass diy label i guess

― rizzx, Sunday, 9 September 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.