Re: What a Find in my Basement!


Jon Enslin wrote:
> Today I was cleaning up our basement...basically sorting through some boxes
> that I hadn't touched since moving in to this house over three years ago. I
> found one box taped shut with the tape from the moving company that we used
> when we moved from Indiana nine years ago.
>
> It was my casette tape collection! My once proud collection that I started
> way back in the early 1980s with "Boston" and carried with me until I
> purchased my first CD player sometime in the early 90s. Some observations:
>
> A couple of WTF moments...greatest hits albums from "The Hollies," "Bad
> Company" and "America."
>
> The summer of 1989 and my obsession with Pink Floyd. It was during that
> summer that I puchased all of their albums, including some of their really
> early, and retroactively really bad crappe. That was also the summer I met
> my now wife. I remember driving with her on a two hour car ride and
> listening to "Atom Heart Mother" and "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and her
> saying it was "great." Now if I put that on in the car it would be "turn
> that shit off!!!" Ah, young love...
>
> Gotta love the typical 80s college albums: "Life's Rich Pagent," "The
> B52s," and "The Violent Femmes."
>
> And some great ones that I have yet to replace with CDs: "Who's Next," "The
> Doors," and "Zenyatta Mondatta."
>
> That was a great couple of hours listening to that stuff. (My eight year
> old loves "Rock Lobster.")
>
> Oh, and there was also an envelope filled with debit card receipts from the
> bank we had in Indiana.
>
> Jon

I am amazed and dumb(founded) that the cassettes all managed to play!
WHen i've found some of my old tapes, they had huge fuzzy patches or
mangled parts or got chomped up by the tape deck.

-goro-

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