the cassette itself is toast

Fortunately it is preserved on archive.org here :)

@stevenray @recordpics Yep, still plugged in.

@atomicpoet @recordpics also, I hope you're still using that reel to reel. 🙂

@atomicpoet @recordpics I can still picture buying that album with three others, going home and having them all be excellent. Big-time inspiration. I'd see them up close a year or two later. Terrific show.

@atomicpoet @recordpics When I talk about the music of my youth I say that The Psychedelic Furs is the favorite band that I never bought an album from. Don't know why but still thrilled when I catch a hit song here and there.

It looks like they sent you a name and a phone number..

Mix tape with some fire tracks on it?

@EricFielding @recordpics Yep, both portable and a proper deck. Should be interesting.

@atomicpoet @recordpics The customs declaration says audio cassette. I hope you have a working cassette player.

@atomicpoet @recordpics I really like that Score too. It contains some Tracks that are very often quoted or used in Other Media especially "On Earth as it is in heaven" and "Gabriels Oboe". Thanks for reminding me of this great piece of music

@atomicpoet @recordpics I miss cassettes and my knockoff Walkman. CDs and MP3 especially are cruel lies.

There was no snark. It was more like, “Oh, must have been before your time”.

I did get the word wrong but it was mostly because I was tired. And the giveaway should be that I got the second word right and explained it’s somewhere between a single and an LP.

I’m politely asking you to be civil in this community from here on out.

@atomicpoet @recordpics Now available on Bandcamp.

@corbden@defcon.social @recordpics@piefed.social @phaedral@beige.party It was like that when I bought it.

@atomicpoet @recordpics @phaedral I love how that case is already cracked. Screams authenticity. Did it come that way?

Just FYI it stands for Extended Play not Enhanced. Keep rocking vinyl ;)

No it doesn't, it stands for Extended Play

Dunno what the snarky "vinyl must have been before your time" proves seen as EPs have continued to be released through all medias and you didn't know what it was either.

No, I wear vinyl all the time

EP stands for Extended Play. It’s got a length between a single and an LP (a.k.a., album).

Vinyl must have been before your time.

what does ep stand for? Or is it like a speech impediment but typed?

@atomicpoet @recordpics I can’t tell you how much I, ahem, love this album. The entire thing is awesome and for me The Phoenix really hits.

@atomicpoet @recordpics Seeing the font and layout used for the track listing on the insert brings back so many memories...

@atomicpoet @recordpics I had one of the American editions that started with Life Begins at the Hop. Just a terrific album.

@atomicpoet @recordpics Can we take a moment to appreciate just how delightfully ‘90s the design of the Memorex dBS cassettes were? I’ve got a few of them lying around here myself.

@atomicpoet @recordpics also if I remember right, the title track was written by someone outside of the band with the idea that it'd be their hit (maybe it was more of a hit in the US than in Canada)