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I’m trying something a little bit different with this video. For whatever reason I suddenly got fixated on the idea of buying a cassette deck to add to the basement stereo system. Cassettes are what I grew up with, and as a result I’m far more nostalgic for them than I am for vinyl. The portability and relative durability of tapes was great back in the day, but the real game-changer was the fact that you could record your own, rather than relying on whatever pre-recorded stuff you could buy. This meant making copies of your LPs and commercial tapes, but it also meant that you could get creative by creating your own tapes, and most people did this by making mixtapes, which were the Spotify playlists of the 80s. With that in mind, when I picked up this refurbished Denon deck at my local record store, I was actually far more excited about buying some blank tapes than I was about collecting pre-recorded ones, because I wanted to make my own mixtapes. There’s something cool about having to limit yourself to
