Pick and mixtape

Louis Pattison hails cassette tapes, the plucky format that refuses to diePerhaps you remember cassette tapes. Once rather popular, by the turn of this century, these small plastic rectangles made their homes in the bargain bins of Woolworths and Our Price, little grottos of obsolescence biding their time until the unforgiving tank tracks of the digital revolution crushed them for good.The future, though, never goes quite to plan. Indeed, like vinyl before it, the humble cassette tape seems to b...

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