Last year 430,000 cassettes were sold in the United States, five times the level of a decade ago, as the music industry looks to the ascent of vinyl and offers listeners literally anything they have left in the back, format-wise. Taylor Swift had two albums in the top 10 bestselling cassettes, a group that also contained the Barbie soundtrack and a Phoebe Bridgers record. Now, setting aside that the vinyl resurgence was due to the inherent audio advantages of that format, while the tape boom is reviving a format that sounds worse than what not only came after it but indeed before it, I want to take this to its logical conclusion: release the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack on piano roll. Sell me a Mountain Goats record on a wax cylinder — it’s the only way to enjoy the lo-fi sound of the earlier records. If you put out the next Taylor Swift album in Dictabelt, Tefifon or Fidelipac, dang it, I’ll buy them.
Cassette tapes on the come back?
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