MUSIC INDUSTRY: Are Cassette Tapes the New Vinyl?

"Sure, digital music is convenient, portable and pretty much free for the pilfering, but where's the fun in scrolling through lines of song titles listed alphabetically in the same font on a LCD screen?...A backlash to the ber-utilitarian ways of digital music has been underway for years with the rise of vinyl fetishism, but no one saw cassette tapes making a comeback.... Although cassettes have always been a staple in the trenches of noise and industrial music, the larger indie cannon left them...

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