I tape them all off Top of the Pops

[venta]

As some of you may recall, for some time I was a champion of the 50p cassette tape, bought from a charity shop and played in a car stereo. Sadly, this is now coming back to bite me.

I no longer own a suitable car stereo, and I have masses of tapes. Some of which I wish to keep, and will be playing on my old-skool tape deck in the house, but many of which I have duplicated on CD.

I am exploring disposal options for tapes. It seems they can be recycled, but you have to pay someone to do it rather than taking them to your local tip. As far as I'm aware, charity shops don't want them any more. If anyone has any great ideas, I'd like to hear them.

However... do any of you drive elderly cars with tape decks? Or listen to tapes in other circumstances? If so, would you like a surprise parcel of random listening sent your way? I can't (and indeed won't) guarantee quality, but I do guarantee variety...

And then there's the home-recorded tapes. The above were all genuine pre-recorded albums, by the way. In the highly unlikely circumstances anyone wants to record over them for their own purposes, shout up...

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[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

I still have an elderly car with a tape deck, and do not own an iAnything or even a portable CD player with which to improve my audio options. At present my in-car music choices consist of a techno compilation tape, goth/alternative/industrial compilation tape, Hawkwind tape, Doors tape, PiL tape, and Mark Stewart and the Maffia tape, all 15-25 years old, the only survivors of the Great Tape Purge of '90 (shortly before we bought the car). So yes please. Random me up. You can send 'em to Serpent King Games:

http://serpentking.com/?page_id=2

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Got my parcel this morning -- thank you!

I am afraid I have given the Tina Turner one a mercy killing (the inlay, at least, is recycled), but the others will all be moving in to the car for play.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Cuh, no soul, some people :)

Or, to put it another way, fair enough! Hope you like the others, anyway. (She wasn't one of the favourites I mentioned :)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Heh-heh, I figured it was only fair that I'd received one of the turkeys as well as some of the favourites (seriously looking forward to having The The in the car). :D

[venta.livejournal.com]

I did try to arrange a fairly even turkey distribution. I figured I didn't really know enough of the music tastes of anyone to actually tailor to them (except, possibly, davefish).

Mind you, it could have been worse. I decided not to send the tape of Pope John Paul II celebrating Christmas mass (in Latin!) to anyone. Why do I own this? I have no idea.