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I had a TON of scores on tape, mostly from Varese. They were perfect for the car, didn't skip, scratch or pop and were easily stored. In the 90's, I found a store that had a hole endcap of them for 99 cents apiece. All Varese. I got a LOT of great scores that day. I still have a lot of the tapes. Three I was most happy to find were Psycho II and both Lionheart volumes.
I still have an original Walkman...
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I wouldn't have a boom-box in my home that lacks at least one cassette deck. (With two, of course, you can make copies.) Too much music which is precious to me exists only on cassettes.
This past year, I've had the unpleasant surprise of buying used soundtrack cassettes on Amazon which turned out to be defective. Makes me wonder if there was a flaw (or just plain cheapness) in manufacturing. For the record, the Varese cassette of THE EGYPTIAN plays just fine, whereas the Columbia (presumably a bigger & better outfit) cassette does not.
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MikeP
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I had a TON of scores on tape, mostly from Varese. They were perfect for the car, didn't skip, scratch or pop and were easily stored. In the 90's, I found a store that had a hole endcap of them for 99 cents apiece. All Varese. I got a LOT of great scores that day. I still have a lot of the tapes. Three I was most happy to find were Psycho II and both Lionheart volumes.
I still have an original Walkman...
I loved my cassettes. I bought LPs in the 70's and early 80's, but most of my collection at the time was cassettes until compact discs took over. Like you, I had a ton of Varese and those burgandy spines with the logo in the box looked great on my shelves. And yeah, I think it was Dollar Tree where I found maybe 30 or more Varese titles to stock up on.
But, sadly, had to clear out space a few years back and unloaded all my cassettes to the local Goodwill store. Interestingly, I dropped off a few boxes of them, and stopped by the store a few times in the next few weeks. None of them seem to have made it to the sales floor. Maybe there was a soundtrack fan in the stockroom?
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I only went through one two year period where I collected pre-recorded tapes, once I started getting CDs, I would just make mixes for me to take with me.
I loved making mix tapes, and I still have a few. None of the film music ones, unfortunately, but quite a few of my old rock mixes are still in a box.
I still have my tape deck hooked up to my home theater.
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This past year, I've had the unpleasant surprise of buying used soundtrack cassettes on Amazon which turned out to be defective. Makes me wonder if there was a flaw (or just plain cheapness) in manufacturing. For the record, the Varese cassette of THE EGYPTIAN plays just fine, whereas the Columbia (presumably a bigger & better outfit) cassette does not.
Ooh, Preston, when I started reading this paragraph, I went - uh-oh! I'm the one I think who directed you to one of those cassettes on Amazon, hope it was the one that played well. Otherwise I tempted you right into disappointment. (And off-topic, just tried watching The Egyptian again because that other thread got me interested and I got the LLL version - but that movie is utterly unwatchable to me - Purdom just strikes me as a black hole. It's like Peter Ustinov and Jean Simmons are playing against a green screen!)
I too loved cassettes, and my only regret is that I actually had my wife get rid of several big cardboard file boxes of them accidentally when we moved into our house 20 years ago. Ah well, most things that I wanted have been pickupable on CD.
My most treasured stumbled-ons were a couple of old Goldsmith cassettes in the late eighties - Outland and The Swarm - great find!
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I got into cassettes in that interim period between when LP pressings turned lousy (early to mid 1970s) and when CDs became mainstream (late 1980s). I would have much preferred to remain with LPs because of the great cover art, but in the end, the lack of clicks and pops on the cassettes won out. To my ears, the Dolby noise reduction sufficiently reduced the tape hiss to where the cassettes were a sonically sound alternative to LPs.
One of the big boons to soundtrack collectors was the 1985-1987 MCA cassette releases of a lot of the MGM soundtrack catalog. I bought a ton of those cassettes--to pick up albums that I had never seen in LP form, to upgrade mono LPs that I had to cassette stereo versions, and to backup heavily played MGM LPs. Of course all of those releases were on LP as well (and I bought a few of those), but the cassettes seemed a better choice to me then.
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Yes, except when you bought a cheap player that made a clarinet sound like electronic warbling. As I did, once. Quite spoiled the woodwinds on my new Star Trek IV Voyage Home cassette. I was devastated.
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I have a bunch of cassette tapes -- mostly pop/rock -- with only a few soundtracks including "Under Fire". I once snagged a used Nakamichi Dragon cassette player from a thrift store for $100. That was an awesome deck. I swear anything I played on it sounded demonstrably better than lps back then. I was heartbroken when it died and was too expensive for me to repair.
http://www.soundandvision.com/content/nakamichi-dragon-cassette-deck
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I surely don't collect them anymore, but I still have my tapes, both originals and copies. The only original soundtrack I have is A League Of Their Own, with 2 tracks by Zimmer.
I still have a walkman with radio and cassette player.
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(The upside - most of them are on CD by now.) 
