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what to do with old cassette tapes (other than landfill!)?


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I recently found an old C60 tape in the back a drawer, still had a cassette player luckily as the tape was of my parents' (long, long deceased) voices just chatting about nothing - that's one I'll keep... I also found Now That's What I Call Music One - double cassette - presumably from when I was a proud(?), if broke and confused, member of Britannia Music...

Many elderly people ( talking late 80's ,90's ,not your 70 year olds ) find cassettes an easier/more familar format to use than CDs .They appreciate recorded fiction and classic songs ,music etc .


But I'm not sure how you'd locate them ...sorry ,not very helpful !

A few years ago, the Music Exchange in Notting Hill still bought pre-recorded tapes. The medium is alive and well for many indie bands; I really enjoyed this short on them:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22533522


And this is a fab piece you can sling into your deck's spare 5.25 bay [unless you have a bleeding-edge case which are designed without them]


http://uedata.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ICAGC

  • 3 weeks later...
Try offering them to charity shops - my elderly mother, whose eyesight is getting worse, likes listening to tapes, particularly book readings / story tapes (which may not be what the main posting is about!) She is luckily able to buy them on line from charity shops and commented that the supply seems to be drying up.

Sue Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > I have a very handy attractive imitation

> leather

> > (plastic) cassette carrying case (Holds 16

> > Cassettes)

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> That's be faux leather, Foxy.

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> Much better than the real stuff :))



That's ok..As long as it's Faux and not Fox.. :)

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