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Today’s cassette is a mixtape packed with early Violent Femmes and Replacements tracks—pure punk energy (atomicpoet.org)
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Today’s cassette is a mixtape packed with early Violent Femmes and Replacements tracks—pure punk energy.

I stumbled across this gem at a thrift shop, and of course I had to grab it. There’s just something about mixtapes—they’ve always felt more personal, more alive, than any official release.

And funny enough, someone on Lemmy recently asked if anyone still remembered these kinds of mixtapes. Well, I don’t just remember them—I’ve got the proof right here.

@recordpics@piefed.social

A person holds a clear plastic cassette tape case containing a Memorex dBS 60-minute audio cassette. The cassette has a transparent shell with bold geometric designs: a green block on the left reel, a magenta-red block on the right reel, and gold-colored spools. The tape label area features a metallic gold strip with checkboxes for “Stereo/Mono” and “On/Off” options.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

@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.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    @atomicpoet @recordpics I even made some back in the day. I was 10-12 when I was doing that, using my parents’ jukebox to dub over tracks from other tapes to make my own compilations. Eventually, Napster and CD-R’s gave me a more streamlined way of doing that. But I did recently make a literal mixtape for my half-brother.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Used to have these as a kid. My favorite style!

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