So anyway, I was cleaning up the spare room the other day when I was clearing aside a mammoth stack of magazines and suddenly noticed the big box of cassettes sitting in the corner. I forgot I even owned the damn things, so I scoured the box, pulled out a few gems and have decided to do the obligatory rant, but before I do I should explain my unique relationship with the cassette format, which is the same as it is the hallowed 7”.
It’s as simple as this: no matter how bogus it is, I never sell it. I have never sold a single cassette or 7” I’ve ever owned (excluding the bogus pop stuff I bought back in primary school). If I’m given, or buy, a particularly lame LP or CD then I have no qualms in trading it in the next day for something better. I don’t have the time or room for music I won’t listen to on those formats, and often I need the spare cash. But cassettes? 7”s? How much room do they take up? How much money would you get for them anyway? Why not just hang on to them and have the occasional listening binge for the mandatory 5-year re-evaluation? That’s what I’m doing now…
BOREDOMS – Soul Discharge
I came across your blog and noticed you mentioned the Oxymorons and wondered if we ever put out a proper release. After a second cassette and a 7" we did a CD in 94. Then combusted shortly thereafter.
Ben died in 97 and the rest of us are doing various things. I have an e-zine theChickenFishSpeaks.com and a couple of archive sites MutantRenegadeRecords.com and Mutant-Renegade.com Patric is doing a blog about the local scene 87-95 http://irememberdayton.blogspot.com
Anyway it's always an ego trip to read something favorable about my band of long ago.
Grog@theChickenFishSpeaks.com
So anyway, I was cleaning up the spare room the other day when I was clearing aside a mammoth stack of magazines and suddenly noticed the big box of cassettes sitting in the corner. I forgot I even owned the damn things, so I scoured the box, pulled out a few gems and have decided to do the obligatory rant, but before I do I should explain my unique relationship with the cassette format, which is the same as it is the hallowed 7”.
It’s as simple as this: no matter how bogus it is, I never sell it. I have never sold a single cassette or 7” I’ve ever owned (excluding the bogus pop stuff I bought back in primary school). If I’m given, or buy, a particularly lame LP or CD then I have no qualms in trading it in the next day for something better. I don’t have the time or room for music I won’t listen to on those formats, and often I need the spar
e cash. But cassettes? 7”s? How much room do they take up? How much money would you get for them anyway? Why not just hang on to them and have the occasional listening binge for the mandatory 5-year re-evaluation? That’s what I’m doing now…
BOREDOMS – Soul Discharge
I came across your blog and noticed you mentioned the Oxymorons and wondered if we ever put out a proper release. After a second cassette and a 7" we did a CD in 94. Then combusted shortly thereafter.
Ben died in 97 and the rest of us are doing various things. I have an e-zine theChickenFishSpeaks.com and a couple of archive sites MutantRenegadeRecords.com and Mutant-Renegade.com Patric is doing a blog about the local scene 87-95 http://irememberdayton.blogspot.com
Anyway it's always an ego trip to read something favorable about my band of long ago.
Grog@theChickenFishSpeaks.com