Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn't know how to play them: 'I struggled'

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Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn't know how to play them: 'I struggled'
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The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes.

“I struggled a little bit,” 26-year-old Amy Campbell, who purchased Kacey Musgrave’s album on a cassette tape this year, told the

But the new-age technology hasn’t deterred young audiophiles from listening to music on old-school devices. In fact, cassette sales are up, with more than 430,000 sold last year — approximately five times more than what was sold almost a decade prior, The Journal reported. “I feel like cassettes kind of got forgotten. But when they were kind of obscure enough to be unfamiliar to the younger generation, they became kind of cool,” he continued.

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