Where do you buy cassette tapes these days?

[crookedtune]

I'm with ya, Doug. And when an mp3 gets wrinkled, you can't just run a hot iron over it and roll it back on in.

Besides, how can you truly love music that you haven't personally salvaged from a labyrinth knot on some Radio Shack cassette-player spindle? Isn't that how we bond?

[Innocent Bystander]

It's a few years now since I was sound man for the Wycombe Talking Newspaper. We sent out tapes for the Blind and partially-sighted in the Wycombe area. We sent around two hundred tapes every week. The Royal Mail carries articles for the blind free, which pretty much allows the whole thing to function.

We used to get our tapes from TNAUK - the Talking Newspaper Association for the United Kingdom. Can't see a mention of it on their site now, but I used to order them by phone.

http://www.tnauk.org.uk/index.html

And here is the opposition establishment. Or another one, anyway.

http://www.tnf.org.uk/index.php

I doubt they would ship to the US. We used to get about 500 tapes at a time. Just tapes, no cases. They were sent out in little padded wallets.

[jim stone]

Thanks to all. I once took an aptitude test to be a computer programmer.
They told me not to try. Tapes are all I can manage. thanks again

[dwest]

My mother made the switch to CDs seven years ago when she was much younger, 88. I suspect right now she is either watching a new DVD she got from National Geographic on her laptop, or reading some new books she downloaded on her Kindle last night. I'm still listening to my 78s.

[Doug_Tipple]

Those old 78s got a lot of mileage on them. As fast as they went around, it didn't take long, although one tune was all you got per side. There were no remotes or automatic replay, either, which was good for the waistline, having to get up and down to change the side of the record. Audiophiles, like my father, were not into automatic turntables.

[MikeS]

Thanks to all. I once took an aptitude test to be a computer programmer.
They told me not to try. Tapes are all I can manage. thanks again

I remember many years back seeing a joke advertisement for the Famous Programmers School. It had a test with six questions. Just after the question section was the line, "If you answered all six questions without ever once wondering why we asked them, then you have a future in computer programming."

[Dale]

Wow. About 2 weeks ago, I threw away and pack of 8 high-quality blank cassette tapes, still in their shrink wrap.

I blame myself.

[tansy]

Dale, that is just so American, how could you

[Denny]

just be glad that he didn't share the fate of his 8 tracks with us

[I.D.10-t]

Dale, that is just so American, how could you

Taking out the trash at least every 2 weeks?

[SteveShaw]

I bought some this end just a few weeks ago. I didn't know they were getting hard to come by. Think I'll buy a few more tomorrow.

[s1m0n]

In another decade, obsessive hipsters will be scouring thrift stores and junk shops for tape; droning on and on about the inimitable 'vintage audio cassette hum' that you just can't get with any other media; furiously one-upping each other with boasts about their latest find: an almost full (3 missing) box of 'almost pristine' memorex 100 minute (the hardest size to find!) audio-cassettes, still in the original shrinkwrap!.

[talasiga]

Anyone know?

jimbo, your best bet is to take another trip to India.

if you can't afford that PM me.

[Lambchop]

They're on Amazon.com . . . Maxell 60, 90, and 120 minutes . . . http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? ... ette+tapes

The suggestion to look at Best Buy and office supply stores like Office Depot and Staples is good. These are still used for dictation.

[Denny]

is there an echo in here?