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Originally Posted by Bugeater
Shit, I never even got to the part about what I had to go through before I had the money to buy records. For a good part of my childhood I made my mix tapes from sitting by the radio for hours with the tape deck set on pause/record waiting for the songs I wanted...it would literally take me days to complete one tape.
And of course the first part of the song was always cut off even though I'd be sitting there with my finger on the pause button every time a new song was about to start. And oh man did it piss me off when the DJ would talk into the song, I'd be screaming SHUT THE **** UP SO I CAN START RECORDING ALREADY.  |
I did that too, especially with the year end countdown shows, except I recorded the whole thing and then used a cassette to cassette to re-record the songs I liked.
I actually also did that years later when I was in my 20's. I recorded late night shows on KBOO, a public access station in Portland, OR. They played really obscure alternative songs. I recently captured a bunch of those songs from those old tapes to MP3.
One thing to add to your "Back in my day..." rant - listening to 8 track tapes and having the track change in the middle of a good song.
