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Re: I really miss making mix tapes from my CDs. Good times.
I still like to make compilations -- first used to make them on reel-to-reel tape, then cassette, and now CD-R. But these days mostly just playlists for the iPod.
As for buying soundtracks on tape, I bought tons of them on reel-to-reel, including most of John Barry's for the Bond movies, but chose to avoid buying any on pre-recorded cassette, preferring to make my own cassettes with the best quality metal tape I could buy at the time. (One's history with tape sure makes one appreciate the audio quality of "burned" CDs!)
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I had a padded case filled with some 2 dozen cassettes. I think I bought ST-IV on cassette and LP. I had a collection of Monty Python albums on cassette (long since replaced by a complete CD box set.)
I lived in Malaysia in '84/'85. I found it was common for a record store to carry one LP copy of an album and sell cassette copies they made in the store. I know I had a copy of Monty Python's Meaning of Life that way, and at least a few others.
I guarantee you, anything I had on cassette has long since been replaced twice over by legit CDs.
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May 12, 2014 - 7:12 AM
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MikeP
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After buying LP's and a few 8 tracks in the 70's ( and yes, it was the Jaws 8 track that faded out the Sea Chase track mid way through and then faded back in, grrrrr ) I guess through the early 80's most of my soundtracks were on cassette. We'd moved and I lost my turntable, so went to cassettes. I'd get promo LP's at the radio station from most of the major labels, though, so had still kept some LP's.
As CDs became the norm, I'd pick up certain titles on CD right away, but something that wasn't a "sure thing" ( not Goldsmith, Williams, TD or Horner  ) would be a cassette purchase. Hell I even remember buying Rudy on cassette first.
I loved my cassettes. It irritated me when some labels continued to produce cassettes in the black tape box instead of the completely clear plastic box. Varese was a bit late in the game on this. Also I preferred when the actual cassette shells were clear plastic instead of the white cassettes. When the cassette itself was clear, you could look at the amount of tape and kinda judge how long the album would be. Also with a clear tape housing, you could see if the tape was the black "chrome" tape for better audio, or the standard fidelity brown tape
Oh, and with Varese, they changed the font and text layout on their cassette box spines along the way...moving from their classic font and a centered style to a much less attractive text font and moving all the text to being right aligned. Oh I did not like that move, Varese.
Yep...I was that anal.
I kept my cassettes a long time after switching totally to CD. Even when some dollar store chains back in the 90's got these large dump bins of Varese cassettes I'd pick up titles I'd missed earlier. But maybe 6 years ago I ended up boxing up most - not all - of my cassettes and giving them to a local Goodwill store. Out of curiosity, I stopped back by that store about a week and a half later, and there was not a cassette to be found. Someone really scored 
And in the interests of full disclosure, about two months back I even bought sealed tape copies of Goldsmith's Lionheart Volumes 1 & 2 from an Amazon seller, $5 for both cassettes.
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My big 8-track standbys were CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND and THE FURY.
On cassette, it was STAR TREKS I, II, and III, plus UNDER FIRE.
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May 12, 2014 - 6:14 PM
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Jim Doherty
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There was a time when I really didn't care whether I got the LP or the cassette, because the cassettes had started to sound so good (and you didn't get the record's surface noise). I still remember playing the cassette of Kilar's DRACULA for people, and them being astounded at the sound coming from a cassette. I've still got one of those suitcase-like cassette carriers filled with over one hundred store-bought soundtrack cassettes, including items like BEETLEJUICE, THE BRIDE, THE BEST OF STAR TREK, TUCKER, and WILLOW, which, as I recall, was longer than the LP because the cassette could hold more music.
I really think every format had its heyday. Each also had its advantages and drawbacks. I look back (and forward) fondly on all of them.
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