What tapes have you liked so much, you just plain wore them out ?
For me, it’s The Counting Crows Recovering the Satillites. I bought the tape originally for one song and I liked it so much that I wore it out, so I bought another one, wore that out too. So, now I have it on CD.
How about you ?
Iv’e worn out my welcome on numerous occasions.
I’ve worn out many of those cheap tapes. They are crap to begin with. I though this would be a wider topic, and since I’m here:
countless pairs of Levi’s
a Yamaha IT465
Dodge Colt RS
a pair of Olin Mk VI Comp SL’s (damn fine skis, and although I can’t prove it, am sure these have the most verticle feet skied in the world)
Astraltune
Close to wearing out my Suzuki DR350 but it refuses to yield
Never, ever throw anything away.
I went through two copies of Led Zeppelin 4 on cassette, and wore out Diver Down by Van Halen but never replaced it. Ah, high school.
Later on, it was No Myth by Michael Penn (for some reason, I listened to that tape over and over for an entire summer) and Whammy! by the B-52’s. By that time, I got a CD player…
Of all of those, Led Zeppelin 4 is the only one I still enjoy listening to; the others I keep around mostly for nostalgia.
Whoops, turns out that Michael Penn album was called March. At least I got his name right. See, there’s proof that I haven’t listened to the thing since that summer…
I wore out two copies of Ry Cooder’s eponymous album. Wore out a tape of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s *Symphonion Dream, * and after years of searching, found a reissue on CD, Thang God! Leo Kottke’s My Feet Are Smiling; I guess the third one will last a while. It’s on CD. The Mothers of Invention’s Just Another Band From L.A. is bloody brilliant, indescribably good.
Tons of 8-tracks as a kid, I still miss a Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley tape called Good Old Boys, I think. When country music was still fun, and funny.
Synchonicity by The Police.
Who’s Next.
Two CD players.
Too many pairs of work shoes to think of, no wonder my feet hurt.
I almost wore out a tape last night in fact…a recording my friend gave me the other day (bootleg?) of Steely Dan playing in L.A. in 1974 at some club. I didn’t put it in the slot correctly, it plays, then the music stops. I pull it out to find that it decided to put on a bit of a striptease for me. It’s probably a rare tape (for my resources anyhow), so I was a little peeved for a second. Thanks to God, I was able to carefully coax it out with only a slight wrinkle on it. Still plays, though I should probably admit that it doesn’t exactly sound CD-quality anyways. Right in the middle of Boston Rag too…arrrrrrrrrghh
Man, I don’t even know how many Boston “More than a feeling” tapes I’ve gone through!