I am believe it or not collecting them. I have about 30. I was wondering if anyone still has a few?

I do. I have probably a few thousand in my collection.

Only until I get off my lazy ass and convert them to CD.

I have two, and they were given to me at a concert for promotion. I'm not sure what happened to my others, but I'm guessing my sister took them. I've only got one tape player, and I haven't used it in years.

I probably have around 300 of them. I get rid of them as I replace them on CD (can usually get a buck at yard sales for them). Thought there are a good bit of them that will never be on CD, so I'll still always have some.

(also, being the annoying collector I am, I keep the cassettes if the artwork is different from the CD version..)

I have hundreds of them and they are all in the attic. Don't miss them in any sense.

Got a ton of them (all live shows & demos of bands, famous and not famous). Just don't have the time to convert them.

I have about 100 left. Some got lost (aka loaned to friends and never returned), some got eaten, and the rest I got rid of when I bought the cd.

I still have about 30 left. I use them in the girlfriend's car as it doesn't have a CD player.

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I never bought pre-recorded cassettes, all vinyl then cd. But I use to record all the King Biscuit Flower Hours, BBC Live, and live radio simulcasts. Had some pretty good stuff which mostly has turned to mush. Most started to jam, break, or the other side would start bleeding through. Lost a lot of great live music. The Stones Steel Wheels concert with a blues section featuring Clapton and John Lee Hooker, The Who performing the entire Tommy album in NYC., Foreigner live in Atlanta '79, The Firm live and on and on. The only ones I have left and should convert to cd before too late are Robert Plant live in '83. a Kinks New Year's Eve live simulcast and a Molly Hatchet King Biscuit.

Have, yes. Still buy, no.
I've probably got, oh, 600 or so. 400 are in racks stacked up in the attic, and the others are just dumped into a couple bags in the garage. Many are things I've never seen before or since, in any format, or can't find digital copies of, and others are virtually bands entire discographies. While I never paid 16.99 for a cassette or whatever Sam Goody wanted, they also weren't free, but have virtually no resale value, so I am quite hesitant to throw them away. Plus, by keeping the cassettes, my mp3s are arguably legal.
I keep thinking I want to digitize at least some of them, but never get around to it.

I have bootleg concerts on audio cassette from the 80s. That is about it.

When I was in high school I gave people tapes and asked them to make me mixtapes and include a list of what songs & artists where included. That was one way to very quickly expand my musical knowledge.

Of course, you have to do with only with people whose taste you like or respect.

Yeah, I still have about 60 or so that haven't been issued in any other format yet. (Merzbow/Hafler Trio/Boredoms/Throbbing Gristle/Borbetomagus/Masonna etc.)

If they ever get CD'd, in the trash they go.

If any of you would like to get rid of them I really like to build up a collection. I am looking for some with the cases and insert only.

I miss this activity. My heart sank a little bit when I first got hooked up to make mix CDs on my home computer and realized that I wouldn't be able to listen to each song as they recorded. I used to sit down with a beer in front of my stereo cassette deck and have a blast making mix tapes in real time. I'd definitely go with the flow as I chose each song. Making a CD is much more sterile in the "action" phase. (if someone comes on here and replies that you can listen to discs as they record I think I'm going to go flog myself)

I also don't think I ever bought a prerecorded cassette if the same thing was available on vinyl.

I have a bunch, but I am selling them on E-bay.

I have about 400 demo cassettes and about 30 blank ones. Listening to demo tapes are one of the greatest things ever to me.

Yes! Those were the days. A high school friend of mine would send me mix tapes her then boyfriend (now husband) would put together!!!!! They were the best! They always included some artists I knew, some I didn't but weren't too varying from my style......

I remember when CD burning and the like came into play, no more tapes.

And have you ever given or gotten a tape from someone interested in you where the music told how they felt?

Yes, I have cassettes and I'm not selling or getting rid of them.

i used to buy them a few years back for .25 each with cover art and all at local thrift shops...I would listen to them in the car, and it was just a cool thing to have. Everyone laughed at me, but then when they would see a tape in good shape they would get if for me.

as far as mixtapes...thats like a major social thing...much more time and thought put into it over a cd burn...I still make them for my wife from time to time.

I've got a handful in my car, though I never use the cassette player anymore. Not much else will fit in the little compartment anyway, so I haven't bothered to remove them.

My girlfriend just bought a car that had a tape deck in it. I promptly went out and purchased and installed a cd player for her. Otherwise I would have been subjected to either the radio or a single funk tape, played over and over and over again.

Mixtapes have so much more meaning. A group of friends of mine that were music dorks (one into lost '60s psych and '70s powerpop and the other into hard to find disco 12"s and myself, who has over 400GB of just early punk rock and garagepunk) were going to start a buisness of making mixtapes for girls who guys would pay us about $30 to make this tape for the girl and it would be filled with a lot of gems that would impress her. It never came off the ground though but seeing that I am strapped for cash, I think I might try to do that now.

Im serious if anyone wants to get rid of thetapes please let me know. I want to build a great collection.