The Cassette: Why I'll Be Letting This Fad Pass Right On By

Everything old is new again.  I suppose that could be a good thing, in one way or another.  For the modern music connoisseur, we are, once again, faced with a returning fad.  Not even a fad, really.  More like a moment in time when technology wasn't able to produce anything better.  

I am speaking of the return of the cassette tape.  Yes.  I'd wear those things out, month after month.  I used to spend entire days waiting for my favorite songs to come across the radio airwaves, and I'd hit that record button with some fury.  My early mix tapes were really something.  But hey, I captured it all.  On cassette.  Cassettes served their purpose.  Then, they died.  Thank God!  

Because compact discs were introduced.  No more fast-forwarding and rewinding to find the song I wanted to hear.  I couldn't afford the tape deck that auto-found songs.  No more fixing the tape-gone-bad with a pencil.

I suppose the only thing that the reintroduction of the tape will accomplish, is that it will force the listener to hear the entire record.  That's really about it.  

It's a funny fad.  I suppose the Millennials, or Generation Z, will have to learn the hard way.  Hopefully, when the listener spends  $70 on a Death Cab tape, they'll learn pretty quickly.

I loved my cassettes, but I am glad they're gone now.