People go to (or miss) record stores, not cassette stores; the store in Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" is called Championship Vinyl, not Championship Plastic.
Like Eric Marcus, you might store your cassette tapes (or mp3 files) in a dark storage closet only to find that you will later use them to create something beautiful and inspirational to many.
Sounding like hitting the "demo" key on an old keyboard while shopping in a supermarket while riding an elevator in Starbucks all captured on a thrift store VHS cassette, nothing sounded like this this year.
There was no hard drive; programs were stored on cassette tape, from which they could be played back or on to which they could be recorded.
So when the store-bought cassette or CD does disappear like Edison's wax cylinders, an album (in whatever form) may cost $20, $25, $30, at which point the recording companies might say, "Well, a 10-song album would have cost you $20. That's $2 per song". For the moment, the $16.98 CD is inevitable.
In Harlem, a Senegalese-owned store stocks cassettes with movies from the expanding African film industry, and at least two shops in Queens, one owned by a Pakistani and the other by a Bangladeshi, supply Bollywood films on videocassette to the borough's large South Asian population.
Rejoice! Rolly now available at U.S. Sony stores Bluetooth cassette adapter!
The archive also includes several mobile phones and 111 recordings Mulcaire made, which are stored on cassettes and MiniDiscs.
The distal 1 cm sections of the jejunum and ileum were stored in cassettes in 10% neutral-buffered formalin (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) for histology.
It used to be that field linguists like Dr. Childs, a scattered corps working against time to salvage the world's endangered tongues — more than 3,000 at last count — scribbled data in smeared notebooks and stored sounds on cassette tapes, destined to rot in boxes.
