Ever since I bought a CD Player for my car, my cassette buying has come to 
a standstill. The last time I bought cassettes was last year, some TDK 
D-90's for airchecking, If I was at home I probably would have re-used some 
old tape. I don't have much affection for cassettes like I do for Vinyl 
-  I guess its the erasable/disposable aspect of the product that keeps me 
from loving them. And all those cheap cassettes that jammed up in the car 
or quickly wore out!

I went crazy with all the cheap CD-R rebates over the past year - I have 
about 400 blank CD-R's in my closet and around my PC. I also bought 2 48X 
burners for my computers - both for under 30 dollars after rebate last 
year, and a I just bought a 40X burner for my brothers PC for $20 after 
rebate.  I remember paying $400 in the winter of 1997 for my first 4X 
burner, and 50 pack spindles cost 60 bucks each!

Billy



At 08:40 PM 2/11/03 -0500, Stewart Mason wrote:
>At 07:32 PM 2/11/2003 -0600, Billy G. Spradlin wrote:
> >This is a dumb idea - it will not stop bootleggers, they will just dub the
> >cassette or vinyl to CD and make copies/MP3's of them.
>
>I don't think they're going for the kind of people who would do that --
>they're just trying to stop the hordes of people who (believe it or not)
>don't have a turntable or cassette player!  Which strikes me as bizarre; I
>mean I can see not owning a turntable, since their heyday is long past, but
>I do know a lot of people who don't have a single cassette deck available
>to them!  Ever since the CD-r took precedence, along with portable mp3
>players, the cassette has been dying a slow and underpublized death.  If it
>wasn't for my telephone interviews, I know I wouldn't be buying blanks
>anymore, and I think I've bought maybe a couple dozen pre-recorded
>cassettes in my life.
>
>S