Hey all, long-time listener, first-time caller. I'm a 20 something that got into cassettes in my late teens due to one joke scene from the first episode of Supernatural, where Dean Winchester still listens to cassettes. It, of course, evolved from that; I wouldn't have spent as much money and time on the hobby if it were just that. Today, my joy in this hobby is authenticity, and all the wow and flutter that come with it, and the hiss, can't forget the hiss. I listen to 70s and 80s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, and I'm very particular on what counts as what (No Led Zeppelin isn't metal, and neither is Rush, Cygnus x-1 doesn't count!) I want to listen to my choice of music in the way it was listened to when it came out, I can't even force myself to record from a computer to a cassette! Most of my collection of cassettes are recorded from Vinyl to blanks, since I live in a small city in Ontario and we have one store that sells cassettes. I also just found that blanks from the 90s or early 2000s tend to work a lot better than a Cassette from 72! I've bought all 4 of my Walkmans, or as I prefer to refer to the plural as, Walkmany, from online, of which one and a half work (the latter works only in auto reverse). Though I have a WM-D3 coming from a trusted seller, I'm hoping this'll be my last one, but we both know that's not true.
Welcome! We didn't care about labels back then, there was so many different varieties of music, my hometown had over 20+ radio stations with any kind of music you could think of. New releases came out on Tuesdays and there was always an handful of albums everyone was waiting for plus there was no "classic" radio outside of 50's-60's AM stations. Once the newest Led Zepplin Album had it's run, you never heard the song again unless it was an album or cassette. A big album like Pyromania might last two years of radio play. As a little kid, AC/DC and Judas Priest were a little scary and considered the first real "metal", nothing but album covers to look at to see what the group looked like or maybe check out the magazine rack to get more photos. Check this out, this store was down the street from my house growing up, I didn't know they were there but I remember the show, they only got like 1200 showing up (6000 seats). The interview is cool, LAV-FM was one of my favorites stations, I still have an old sticker around here somewhere from them, anybody remember famous DJ Aris Hampers?
