#cassette box

[catladychronicles]

Memorex MP3236

[kply-industries]

[gameraboy2]

Earth, Wind & Fire for the 1980 Panasonic Platinum Series Stereo Radio Cassette Player

[heavymetal]

[pinkfloyd-musicartnaturelove]

The "boom box" was such a big deal. It was essential to own one if you were a music person in the 80s and couldn't afford a stereo system. Making mixed tapes, recording songs from the radio, and borrowing your friend's tapes so you could copy them. We've come a long way!

[so-emo-i-fell-apart]

They hate me for the way I go insane for physical media

[garadinervi]

Marianne Dages, A Manual for Denial – Collector's Edition, Huldra Press, 2024, Edition of 5

Contains one copy of Tales of Fort Denial – Book

Box Size: 8.25" x 5.5" x 2.25" Box Details: Handmade clamshell box Cover: Duo and Dubletta bookcloth with letterpress inset titles Interior: The nested compartments for the coin and cassette are lined with deer hide. Asahi bookcloth ribbon Coin: Hand-forged marine brass coin with an 8-bit symbol on each side. Made by Rossi Metal Design Cassette: An audio cassette of the NES chiptune version of It is always our last day, an original piece of music composed by L Autumn Gnadinger. Tapes recorded by Electro Spiral Sound. Vintage 90s smoky grey Fuji tape boxes and mirror silver photocopied labels Print: Risograph print of a deer with letterpress printed text on vintage cornflower blue paper. The print is wrapped in carefully crumpled frosted mylar, with hole punched details. Read the manual carefully

[seeminglydark]

hi! is there are reason that you decided that cassette tapes would be john’s chosen form of physical media? how would john organize his music (i.e., genre, band name, release date) and what would john keep his cassettes in? i can imagine him either having stuff in old shoe boxes or a cassette case that he hand-painted himself!

Yes! It's my personal favorite form of media, I'm really partial to cassettes, i think from growing up in the early 90's when it was the norm, so imprinted on my brain. I love mix tapes, jumping up to smash the record button when my fave tune came on the radio, so id always miss the first 10 seconds haha, my first several cars had tape decks. i love Walkmans, it was such a HUGE thing in my life to be able to put headphones on and take my music with me for the first time. I translate a lot of that nostalgia to john. I always imagine him with his Walkman and headphones, or small portable stereo, in bed with all the lights off except the white christmas lights that criss cross his ceiling, Creaky on his chest, listening to the episodes on repeat.

John organizes his music by How Much he Currently Likes A Band, grouped by band name and then oddly enough by album color. (so if he had several cassettes by say, Social D, they'd be next to each other in rainbow or light to dark.) He does most things by color, he's slower at reading and alphabetizing is a bit of a chore and makes him feel self-conscious and stressed. He doesn't mix music and books on tape, they each have their own shelf. He does rearrange a LOT.

Right again re: shoe box and painting the cases! I actually wrote a little snippet of this a long long time ago that didn't make it into the comic, but you can have it now, under the cut.

'Caro eyes a shoe box on the shelf curiously, its covered in stickers, anti fascism and punk rock bands. 'Can i look at this?' they ask, he nods, his back to them. They pull it down and settle it in their lap, lifting off the top to discover... cassette tapes! Oh wait, John did say Maddie recorded their show for him onto cassettes. There were at least 40, all lined up in the order of episodes. Caro pulled one out, the white paper inside the case was filled in with bright colors and shapes, elaborate images of ghosts and snakes and monsters. They pulled out another. A cartoon portrait of the little blond, violet eyes wide at the barrage of brightly colored spirits hovering behind them. 'Is this me?' they ask out loud. John turns to look and freezes. 'Oh….' embarrassed. 'Uh yeah…' 'Wow the art is so…?' they murmur, pulling out another, this one done in greens and blues with metallics. 'Ive never seen anything like these before?' They saw a lot of fanart, but this was different somehow. It felt more personal. Like the person who made them really put their soul into it, like it wasn't just fanart to the artist, but something really deeply important. 'I…um….' Johns face is bright red now..' um…I mean, you know I dont have social media..' he reminds them softly, rubbing the back of his neck. 'Wait.' Caro looks up, he's so flustered now, shuffling his feet, ears on fire. 'These are YOURS? You did these?' Somehow they've forgotten he used to fill up notebooks with colorful drawings, street art and tagging. Liquid letters and cartoon animals with thick black outlines. 'Sure.' He shrugs and turns away, back to them again, 'I would draw on them while listening, you know. It just felt kinda sad to leave them blank. Maddie showed me some of the fanart online, and the box set of the first season. I can't do the same kind of art, I'm not good like those other people, but…I didn't want to leave them blank, so I made my own I guess.' he pauses. 'I'm sorry…you must think I'm so fucking weird.' 'I don't think its weird…' they murmur looking at the tapes. 'I think its really cool. I didn't know you were such a talented artist.' He laughs, a short bark that sounds like a cough. They put the box gently back on the shelf, and sit on the bed, deciding to spare him. They can see he's smiling though, even if he's trying to hide it with his fist pressed against his lips.'

[machetelanding]

[boydykepdf]

bought a $30 cassette player now i’m listening to my dad’s 80s bootleg tape of bruce springsteen playing live i love it here

[nitw]

i'm seriously developing a hardware technology obsession. bordering on kink maybe. its so fun and cool and sexy

[greekmythcomix]

Present from husband for being sick for so long: a pristine copy of the 1981 BBC radio recordings of The Lord Of The Rings! 13 tapes!!

(Yes, we have a tape deck, and yes, we have time because I’m still testing Covid-positive 🙄)

And MY FRIEND’S DAD DID THE SOUND EFFECTS!!

(Told you I was a massive nerd)

Now to try and get my 3yo to allow me to listen to it…

[dragoncarrion]

who’s papercut?

AHEEM he's barely some vague concept that i've yet to develop but he's basically some (modified) casette type minibot medic who turns into a paperplane thats all i got for now 😭 he's itty bitty but his metal is surprisingly resistant yet flexible and also obscenely sharp. he may or may not have been involved in cartoon logic sneak assassinations in the past because of that. nowadays he's a very skilled albeit ill tempered doctor specializing in very delicate surgeries (given his size he can manipulate small parts around better methinks)

[ghostinacardboardbox]

I’ve been getting into filk music lately so if anyone has any recommendations (especially in the sci-fi genre) let me know