With more cassette tapes being bought than since 2003, readers tell why they prefer them to modern music players
, following vinyl records in a small, nostalgia-fuelled resurgence. Five readers told us why they prefer to listen to supposedly obsolete tapes.“Buying a cassette direct from an independent artist on platforms such as Bandcamp is such a fun way to consume music. Often produced in very small runs, it is nice to receive something though the post that is relatively scarce. In these days of Spotify funnelling payments only to the superstars, it feels good to support small artists and labels.
“I listen to cassettes daily. And vinyl, and CDs. It depends what I want to listen to and which format it’s on. Cassettes, though – and I know this is technically wrong – sound as though they have much more depth than the CDs. I’ve tried one after the other and believe I can hear a better sound from the cassette.
“My big brother died a few years ago and I have some of the tapes of his that I nicked from him when we were teenagers, such as Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple and UFO – he first got me into rock and metal. My co-worker is in the office next door, but I always know when he’s been sneaking in and working at my desk when the music has been surreptitiously changed to his prog rock stuff, which I no longer approve of.
“The first album I ever bought was on cassette: Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms. Cassettes were my main way to consume music from childhood until I bought a Creative Zen MP3 player in the late noughties. “I like to create my own music and collaborate with others. After rediscovering the atmosphere and sound of cassettes, I abandoned recording on to my laptop or PC and began using straight-to-audio cassette. I found this focused jam sessions. No longer would me and my friends just endlessly twiddle about for hours thinking, ‘we’ll sift through it all later’. Instead, there was physical tape being consumed and we only had so much of it, so we took the sessions more seriously.
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