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yvynyl:

tomewing:

Inspired by Marc Hogan’s excellent cassette culture piece, a question:

When the CD is inevitably revived as an indie ltd release format in 10 years time what qualities will its afficionadoes claim for it?

This is a very well-written, and comprehensive piece, indeed. One clip:

Artists choose to put out their music on tapes for reasons both aesthetic and practical. From a practical standpoint, cassettes are arguably the least expensive physical recording format available. Burning CD-Rs one-by-one might be cheaper, but once you get into buying large-scale duplicators, there’s not much comparison. All told, a cassette costs $0.20 apiece to manufacture, says Sic Alps singer/guitarist Mike Donovan, whose Folding Cassettes is set to release a Greatest Hits double album this year on Yik Yak.