Cassette tapes existed before cars adopted them, but automakers stuck with 8-tracks until one key improvement made cassette ...

My previous daily driver was a 2000 VW Beetle that I inherited from my mom, and the only way to listen to pre-recorded music was by inserting a tape into the stereo. That prompted me to buy a few ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

Music lovers everywhere are embracing a resurgence of the once popular and inexpensive, easy-to-handle audio cassette tape. For those of you too young to remember, cassettes were a music format ...

In the introduction to “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape,” Phoenix-based author Marc Masters shares a vivid memory of freshman year at college. It’s the first week of school and ...

A neighbor of ours was rummaging around in our garage recently looking for record albums to buy to sell in his store, Left of the Dial, in Santa Ana. He emerged with a handful of cassettes. “How much ...

Reinventing refuse for a retro look.

In 1989, when global annual sales of cassettes peaked at 83 million, people were listening to the Christmas number one, But Seriously... by Phil Collins, on their Sony Walkmans. 30 years later and ...

WAVERLY, NEB. — The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago, when compact discs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 ...

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LIKE DEBBIE GIBSON, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...