“ Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
~ Thomas Wolfe
Here’s the latest in the “who would have thought?” file. Did you know that cassette tapes are making a huge comeback? What on earth could be driving people to breathe life back into this long-forgotten format? If the vinyl revival is perplexing then the resurgence of cassette culture is downright confounding.
If you think the vinyl revival had them stumped, this one really has the pundits scratching their heads. What on earth is going on with cassettes? Why would anyone want to revive a cheap and funky format that most people assumed was dead and gone for good?
Well, one theory is that it all comes down to the magnets. To analyze cassette culture objectively, it would seem that for some sensitive folks no amount of inconvenience or hassle will stop them from getting that electromagnetic feeling.
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