| EPOCH6 |
10-30-2014 10:19 AM |
I've been rabidly collecting old classic rock tapes for a little over a month now, after my father passed down his old '95 Chevy Silverado that only has a cassette deck / radio, the addictive nature of building a record collection is really starting to dawn on me. I've probably spent up to $75 on albums in the last month, not including the gas burned driving out to small towns and obscure shops to find them, and even then only half of the tapes I've picked up are in listenable condition (considering most of them are literally 40 years old). And still, I'm only getting more into it every day. I'm meeting up with an old jam buddy at a gig this weekend to trade him a case of beer for his entire old metal collection (more than 125 ****ing albums, about half of which are rare and go for like $15 - $30 each on eBay), I spend about an hour a day looking for rare tapes online, I spend about an hour a weekend re-visiting pawn shops to check up on their inventory, and an unknown amount of time looking for unsuspecting senior citizens on Facebook to swindle into selling their old collections. It's amazing how much harder it is to find tapes than vinyl.
Cassette tapes are ruining my life.
But ****... Freebird has never sounded this good.
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