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I thought most people embraced CD's because they were a massive improvement over tapes.

• ghaff 3y ago
  I don't think that's generally true. As someone who was in college during the vinyl era, although I created mix tapes and taped vinyl that others owned, I never did a lot of purchasing of pre-recorded cassettes and I think my behavior was pretty common. Certainly, the "record stores" of the era carried far more vinyl than cassettes.
  • ska 3y ago
    Fair, but didn't that change once CD players showed up in cars? Some people were certainly buying up loads of tapes (but they did wear out, so some repeats?)
    • ghaff 3y ago
      This suggests that cassettes were never a hugely important medium--maybe in the 80s for a while for the reason you suggest? https://www.statista.com/chart/17244/us-music-revenue-by-format/ https://www.statista.com/chart/17244/us-music-revenue-by-for... Another chart is this one but it's hard to parse. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-format/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-... In any case, pre-recorded cassettes were always a pretty small part of the mix.
      • ska 3y ago
        interesting!