i started picking up cassettes because it's a much faster way to 'just listen to some music': take cassette, place in deck, press play contrast the 'user expe

i started picking up cassettes because it's a much faster way to 'just listen to some music': take cassette, place in deck, press play contrast the 'user experience' from streaming players: open app, swipe away notifications you dont care about, scroll past artists and albums you never had any intention of listening to, try to search for something like what you wanted, mis-spell and fix your query a couple times, scroll past 'recommendations' that have nothing to do with your original query, tap the same playlist you've been listening to which is at the bottom of the list even though its an exact match for the query you entered, find out that half of the songs are gone because of a licensing dispute, and now that you're finally ready to hit Play.... you haven't even begun fixing your bluetooth setup also vaporwave sounds fantastic on tape