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Cassette Tape Holder For iPod Looks Ridiculously Cool

by Peter Mychalcewycz, posted Oct 13th 2008 at 12:01PM



Analog music... Consider this the ultimate pimp slap...

Contexture Design, a Vancouver-based company, has created an iPod Nano case made out of recycled cassette tapes. Daaaamn, '80, you just got plaaaayed... We hadn't even seen a cassette tape in five years when we stumbled across this retro gem. The Nano gently snuggles into the remodeled Maxell cassette, providing protection to your pricey MP3 player while literally and figuratively burying an entire era of musical technology. Good times!

There are severely limited numbers of this sweet little item, so act quickly...If you have $45 laying around. [From: TUAW]


Cassettes Still a Big Seller in Prisons

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Jul 24th 2008 at 11:24AM



One music retailer in California has cornered the music cassette sales market. Big deal, you say? Well, it is when you consider that, in jail, digital music players are useless and CDs are dangerous contraband. But, for some reason, cassette tapes and players are allowed, which means that millions of people in this country are forced to use an outdated method of music distribution that many labels no longer cater to. That's why Bob Paris of Pack Central started stocking up on cassettes a number of years ago and has developed a burgeoning business that caters specifically to the incarcerated.

While the rest of the music industry struggles to stay afloat, Paris's business has remained flat with more than a million dollars in sales for the last five years straight. "I have dodged every conventional bullet that has hit most music retailers," Paris told the New York Times. "I don't have to worry about downloading, legal or illegally." [Source: NY Times]

Play Your Old Cassettes on an iPod

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Sep 13th 2007 at 3:24PM

Play Your Old Cassettes on an iPod

Many of us have piles of cassettes laying around -- relics of days in which you expressed love by way of the mix tape and in which "stealing music" meant dubbing a friend's copy of 'Night Moves.' But, the rise of the digital revolution has relegated these magnetic mementos to storage bins under our beds.

Sometimes, though, a little bit of nostalgia takes hold and listening to those old cassettes can be a very satisfying experience. The problem is that many of us ditched our cassette players long ago. Thankfully, there's a company waiting to cash in on your inability to part with the past.

Send Cassettes2CDs your old tapes and the company will dump them onto a CD or straight to MP3 for easy loading on your iPod. The tracks are split, titled, tagged and "volume maximized" if a little on the quiet side. And if the tape won't play, Cassettes2CDs fixes it for free.

Cassettes2CDs offers prepaid mailers in the continental U.S., with prices starting at $79 for a package of 10 tapes. And despite the name, the service will do the same for your old LPs and 45s.

From Retro Thing

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