depends on what you want, if you're into noise and drone then you're bound to buy stuff on tape, not like an alternate format but as the format for a specific release (unless it gets reissued as something else).

Noise is definitely a main basis of what I want to collect, but I'm not one to exclude any form of music, on any format. So in many ways, this is just going to be a 3rd format for me to add to.

That's what they said about vinyl.

well lots (most) of that stuff comes out on CD & vinyl, you don't need to buy tapes to get into anything, the cassette scene to my mind is purely a format fetish thing more than a by whatever means neccessary to release music thing

aquarius sell tapes too, by the way.

so you're looking for tapes of stuff available on cd and/or vinyl? then your best bet is ebay and second hand record stores.

Thanks to Toilet & Bowels, I have a few online record labels that deal cassettes, but I will always have a use for ebay & indepedent record stores, no matter the format.

Aaagh!

I've just received the latest Callow God newsletter, and there's two out of five releases on there that I'd like to buy. But do I really want to pay $14 for 40 minutes of music that I'll only be able to listen to in one room in my house, and I'll have to get up every ten minutes to turn the ruddy tape over? I mean, I already have numerous tapes that I rarely, if ever, listen to.

Like I said, aaagh!

there is something very alluring about cassettes, but at the same time i don't really see the point in collecting albums on cassette just for the sake of it. different if they are cassette only releases, or if you are trying to be completist about it, but at the end of the day they are a bit of a pain in the ass (changin sides, scrambled tapes, crap quality etc etc).

ever since i got my new stereo, i find that tapes i thought were fucked actually sounded incredibly good, in cases better than cds.

I've come to this conclusion as well. I basically am starting this collection for the basis of cassette only, & rare releases. But, I ultimately prefer vinyl to cassette. W/out question.

Order of audio format of preferance:

1.Vinyl
2.24bit / 96kHz - WAV / FLAC
3.Cassette
4.CD
5.MP3

BTW, Everyneurotic, what's the new set-up like?

laughable, hahahahahaha.

nah, seriously; it's an lg mini component with dual tape deck, three disc cd tray, radio, line in, two small but destructive speakers. i line in the computer and the turntable (not at the same time though) and the turntable is the same shitass audiologik thing that is screaming for a rewiring in the arm or something because one side of it is shorting.

everything else sounds really amazing though.

I couldn't resist - Ordered Marble Sky "Low God" + "Lady" C30 + C10, and Taiga Remains with Impregnable "Downfall" 2xC20.

if you want some 8 tracks i've got a shit load

i once was going to get a whole bag of 8 tracks from a guy but never got them.

i was quite excited about having them.

all my 8-tracks are like led zep and pink floyd and the stones because they stopped making them after that. i have them because my car had an 8 track deck.

sweet!!

the ones the guy was going to give me were like the beatles and the who, a bulk of them; i don't have an 8 track player, but i wanted a few, just to have them.

they're kind of useless actually. i didn't even bring them when i moved to new york.

they are useless, but it's like having a display artifact. i would have loved having a the who sing my generation 8 track catridge propped up somewhere in my house.

You should check out Spencer Clark's cassette stuff on his New Age Cassettes label. His cut-up stuff is so other worldly and brilliant proving (to me at least) that cassettes are still relevant.

Ignatz records most of his stuf on cassettes. If he releases some of his records on cd then why would it be so weird to release cassettes as well?