yeah, i don't have to say too much, do i? yeah, there's nothing like a stash of naked, cheap, nicked and scratched, magic-markered code-titled cassette tapes, tapes, tapes! we taped off the radio, taped off the tv... we taped ourselves talking, taped fake 'shows,' ... we taped everything. and, when i say WE, i mean like, WE as the '80's generation,' for lack of a better term. man, even if i had like, a thousand dollars, i couldn't buy all the hundreds and hundreds of hours of audio gloriousness to be had on ALLLLL the tapes jean-lucien and i made in our youth. hey, lucynell, i know you know where i'm coming from. man, if you said the word 'Certron,' i would instantly know exactly what you meant. Certron, TDK, Memorex, Denon, Sony... etc. man, i really hope they never stop making blank tapes. did you know that, in the early 80's, in Great Britain, when like, boom boxes were really taking off... the practice of 'taping off the radio' became so widespread, record companies started to lose money, and there was even an attempt to criminalize it... but you can't stop a teen with a tape deck. ahhh, those days...
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"Denon"
god, my favorite thing in the world to do was to tape songs off of the radio. Didn't Denon make VHS tapes, too? I learned quickly not to buy 90 min tapes. They broke super easily.
I can remember some of the songs that were on the tape I made when I got my first boombox (an Emerson) Electric Avenue, Ghostbusters, I Want A New Drug, Love Is a Battlefield, True, Let's Hear It For the Boy, Borderline, Little Red Corvette and Middle of the Road
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