JamFanHot said:

Had many hundreds...but I always thought this TDK was the best one ever made:

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that looks great, like the Ferrari/Porsche of cassettes or whatever

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I had these too and loved them. They were cheap and had decent high end.

Those Maxells really pissed me off, they were relatively expensive and they sounded crappy

I remember the excitement of a new Prince song being released on the radio.The DJ would say "In a few minutes,we're gonna premiere the new Prince single!".I would grab a blank tape and get ready to record it

Timmy84 said:

My brother used to record songs on blank tapes too.

I remembered the reaction I got when I bought my first tape. I was all like

You make your brother sound like he was from the 19 century.

I still have a collection of cassettes and I still have some blank tapes, I keeping them.

I remember buying batdance/200 balloons on cassette.

I also used to "remaster" all the prince vinyl bootlegs I had by playing them through a friends fancy equalizer and recording them to a tape.