What was the last cassette tape you bought?

thejuggler

As a format the prerecorded cassette tape is pretty much dead these days although you can still purchase blank tapes for home recording.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette#Decline

Can you remember what the last tape you purchased was? I'm not certain but it could have been Zig and Zags album in the early 90s and I also used to buy lots of cassette singles in those days. I pretty much switched to CD after that but reckon that you could buy most albums on cassette until the early 00's.

When did cassette tape albums disappear from irish shops?

kelle

I have never liked CD's, any handling seems to render them unoperable, be it fingerprints or light scratches! I was disappointed when cassettes were abolished, I think the last one I ever bought was a Celine Dion album.

It's great now you can put music onto an MP3 or iPod - no worries about scratches or tape getting chewed!

Apparently, blank cassette tapes sell very well when oral exams are coming up (I mean, Junior or Leaving Cert for filthy minds!)

lord lucan

I think the last tape i bought was Faith No More - Angel Dust in 1992. I remember buying it again on CD a few months later so i think that was the end of tapes for me.

WindSock

Zig & Zag Chrsitmas songs, last weekend!

I don't even have a tape player anymore :pac:

stovelid

I stopped buying them at the start of the 90s, but I think I bought an Imagination Greatest Hits somewhere around 10 years ago when I spotted it in some crap bargain shop.

darkdubh

The last new cassette i bought was "Moon safari" by Air in either ,99 or 2000.

Ruu_Old

Babylon Zoo I think.

lt_cmdr_worf

DJ Pressure mixtapes (from the Asylum, Dublin, 1994) in Abbey Discs, late 2007.

Saw cassettes being sold secondhand in Belfast not so long ago.

Hornswoggle

nearly sure the last one i bought was 'performance and cocktails' by the Stereophonics in 99. Give it a few years and there'll be a thread here called "What was the last CD you bought?"

wandatowell

Never bought one but my old man got me Use Your Illusion on tape, still have it in the attic afaik, jes must have listened to that for hundreds and hundreds of hours.

Did get myself an 8 track tape last year.

kippy

The last tape I bought was also the first I bought.
Michael Jackson - History.

wobzilla

I bought Dustin Unplucked off some fella on henry street

mike65

Can't be certain but it was possibly The Delicate Sound of Thunder by Pink Floyd or Sleeps With Angels by Neil Young

admiralofthefleet

shaggy - mr boombastic:o

admiralofthefleet

Ruu wrote: »

Babylon Zoo I think.

i still listen to that on my ipod, classic song

Dudess

80s synth compilation in about 1998 - in a bargain bin in Porters Newsagents. But prior to that I'd often get a tape if I couldn't find the CD (and couldn't be arsed ordering it - the world pre interweb eh...? ) or if I was too broke for the CD (e.g. a double album). Stupid really - they were absolute dust receptacles and nearly all binned long ago.

Latchy

A-HA - Scoundrel days- about 1986 .

I went to see them at the RDS around the same time and still have the evening hearld review of the night ,great gig

I still have that cassette and a couple of hundred more to boot

Dudess

I still have a handful of tapes - couple of indie compilations (with some fairly rare stuff on them in fairness) and... er... the Sigue Sigue Sputnik album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjOz2cbiNCI

Delirium

last cassette I bought was machina by the smashing pumpkins. So that would be around 9 years ago I guess.

Miss Lockhart

koth wrote: »

last cassette I bought was machina by the smashing pumpkins. So that would be around 9 years ago I guess.

Wow! Machina on cassette! :eek:

Last one I bought was Now 29 in 1994 .... still have it but haven't listened to it in about 12 years.

WindSock

Ruu wrote: »

Babylon Zoo I think.

I bought that too. Along with another single, Gangsters Paradise by Coolio . I think they were the first tapes I ever bought.
Then I started buying those knock off ones on Henry St. One of them was The Bends by Radiohead. Probably the best tape I ever bought, I almost wore it thin.

Edit: And i used to go to Rythym Records on the Quays for tapes as well. Loved that shop, got loads of live concerts on tape.

Agricola

Either a Prince single or ............. Billy Ray Cirus - I was mixed up!

xzanti

Can't believe I actually remember but, Garage Anthems in 2000..

Firetrap

I think it was the best of Icehouse (Aussie band who had one or two minor hits over here) back around 1994. Then my parents bought a radio/cassette/CD player so then I started buying CDs and making tapes off those.

piby

By the time I was growing up CDs were already pretty much replacing tapes so the first, and only, cassette I ever bought was Bon Jovi's 'Slippery When Wet' around about 1998. Sure I've only bought about 3 CDs in the last 5 years as it is, ah the digital age

RandolphEsq

Kernkraft - Zombie Nation

or else it was Eiffel 65 - Blue (da ba dee)

jonas7

The Blue album by Weezer about 10 years ago was the last one i bought,and that was just to replace my previous copy that got broke.

Blisterman

They're not completely gone yet. I was in a record store in Sofia in Bulgaria last summer, and about 70% of the albums on display were cassettes.

gasolinehorsey

mine was a blues explosion album, and jesus lizard 'head', in tower, a long time ago!

always been more of a vinyl type myself

DublinWriter

Rush - Hold your Fire - 1989 I think.

blindpilot

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore. Bought cassettes back then because they were a bit cheaper than cds and I was a bit tight (moneywise) back then.:D

Dirk Gently

Possibly nevermind back in the early 90's , although I have definitely maybe around somewhere too so that would more likely be the last one.

Pjays

Very embarrassing now but I loved the Backstreet Boys and I bought that album with Everybody on it. That would have been my last.

nlgbbbblth

Started buying music in 1981 - always vinyl, never cassettes. To this day I still buy records weekly - along with CDs.

Only cassettes I had were ones I got through the NME.

Cassettes did serious harm to vinyl sales from 1982 onwards - a fact that a lot of people conveniently fail to remember. Instead they point the finger at CDs.

Could never understand the attraction with cassettes - fine for taping LPs or making mixtapes but not for buying.

Ironically my self-imposed lifetime cassette ban was broken earlier this year. I ordered a second hand CD copy of Billboard's Rock'n'Roll Hits 1958 on Amazon Marketplace - but I mistakenly ordered from the cassette listing so one arrived instead of a CD. Sealed.

Still haven't opened it.

Physical formats rule.

loyatemu

Beastie Boys "Hello Nasty" I think was the last one I bought - it must have been cheaper than the CD as I definitely had a fair few CDs at that stage.

thejuggler

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

Started buying music in 1981 - always vinyl, never cassettes. To this day I still buy records weekly - along with CDs.

Could never understand the attraction with cassettes - fine for taping LPs or making mixtapes but not for buying.

Physical formats rule.

Ever tried playing vinyl in the car?

nlgbbbblth

thejuggler wrote: »

Ever tried playing vinyl in the car?

that's when blank tapes come in handy...

SM01

The Cramps - Stay Sick

bullets

Last Tapes I bought were all from the Cure.
At the time CD's were too expensive.

And the only record player in the house was in the main
family room so as teenager you could not play Records in your own room.


also with some of The Cure's albums that came on tape you would
often get songs that were not on the CD's

The Cure Entreat as far as I know I could not even get it on CD
at the time, it was only available on Tape.

And the Tape Standing on a beach compilation had a full B side that
were not on the CD version of the album that had the same album art but was re-named Staring at the Sea.

After Tape I spent a lot of time moving everything onto Mini-Disc, even my CD's I loved
mini-disc format, but I think the general public dismissed it.
It was never designed to replace the CD it was designed to replace the Tape.
Still have some at home someplace. I finally gave up on it when MP3's started to get Good and common,
it will never replace the sound you get from Tape of Vinyl though.

~B