The only cassette I kept from my youth - What was yours?

Posted by crabby1701@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 36 comments

The rest I sold on eBay. I never had much but kept this one because it was rare import. I am sure you can tell what I liked to listen to back then.

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onemorebutfaster_74@reddit

I have a Paul's Boutique cassette somewhere.

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AmphibianFragrant453@reddit

Licensed to Ill here. I brought it to boot camp in 96 and I have a picture of my personal drawer - otherwise I wouldn’t have remembered this tidbit.

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megaboz@reddit

Hitchhiker's Guide. Never getting rid of this even though I long ago converted them to mp3.

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Imajica0921@reddit

Sweaty Nipples-What is Your Funktion? It's the only one that survived the flood and the fire.

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Affectionate-Map2583@reddit

I have an entire milk crate full of cassettes in my basement. My son had a musical discovery period with them when he was in middle school, but they eventually returned to the basement.

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KillerSwiller@reddit

Would have kept them all, boomer mother threw them all out years ago.

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MrSpud45@reddit

Here's one of mine - kept more for sentimental reasons (was my late mothers)

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bumpynuks@reddit

I still have a few. Kool Moe Dee and Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in full to name a couple.

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Deboning Method "Cold" demo. Released in 1993. I can't imagine there's many left out in the wild. The band never became anything but Derek Roddy (the drummer) has gone on to be widely considered as one of the best metal drummers of all time.

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poss-um@reddit

Phish Junta and Phish Lawn Boy.

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onlyrelevantlyrics@reddit

I have a still sealed "Moving Pictures" (Rush) from Sam Goody will the price tag showing......$6.99. I lives with my signed Neil Peart snare head.

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Dunkelregen@reddit

I worked at a Sam Goody's in high school. I popped so many cassettes out of those plastic anti-theft devices (that covered up the track listing on the back, dammit!), that I'm pretty sure I still have the muscle memory to pop one out today, even with my arthritis.

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1159Funkbubbles@reddit

Raw Fusion - Live from the Styleetron

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nixtarx@reddit

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SignificantTransient@reddit

Literally listening to almost paradise rn

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WideRisk7495@reddit

Pantera GSTK

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WideRisk7495@reddit

Oh and End of Silence H R

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Keefer1970@reddit

The Ramones' "Mondo Bizarro," because it's autographed by all four band members. Iwant that thing buried with me when I die.

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captainfishhooks@reddit

The original Green Chrome Cassette version of ICP's Beverly kills.

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elcad@reddit

I have a couple thousand cassettes still. Have a Japanese release of Queen's Greatest Hits and a Korean release of the James Gang. Some French tapes like Edith P. and Telephone.

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Patdemonium@reddit

Rip riiiiiiiide!

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Velvet_Samurai@reddit

Wow, I remember being super into metal in HS, and wanted to listen to more than what my local Sam Goody's had. So I found out about Venom, never heard them, but wanted to check them out. So I ordered some random album of theirs from Sam Goody's catalog. I don't think they made me pay, but I checked back in every 30 days for my entire HS career, and it never showed up. Some of the clerks started telling me, "This probably isn't gonna happen man."

But I didn't pay anything, I was coming in anyway, what do I have to lose? I graduated in 94 and never got it. Was finally able to listen to them when streaming started to happen. By then I wasn't super into metal so it didn't hit very right. They're good but I have moved on now.

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

I haven't had a single retail cassette in my possession for decades. I thought tapes were problematic back in the day; sketchy quality, easily-damaged, etc, so pretty much retired them and got it all on CD in the early '90's.

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Hot_Rock@reddit

I was so happy about throwing out my cassettes when I had CDs to replace them. I always hated them. Mine were constantly messing up. Now they’re actually worth money again. Go figure.

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Deamonchild666@reddit

Awesome album. They had a great logo

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boilersnipe@reddit

Hallows Eve - Death and Insanity

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RightSideBlind@reddit

"Eagle".

Not "The Eagles", but rather the first video game I ever programmed- in BASIC, on a TS-1000 mini computer.

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