cassettes are all original, some written on labels with pencil - i haven‘t listened to any as i‘m quite scared of the content (as written on, mainly sinister folk-pop), but nice cassettes: the BASF one in that strange grey box contains a cleaning-tape of the era
They look quaint now, but back in 1980s they looked totally outdated, and I hated this look. It would be nice to have an original Philips cassette though.
I'm with CDV, those used to be hideous, now they look pretty cool and would look great properly displayed. I wonder what German Folk Pop sounds like? Remember that song from a few years ago that everyone on the internet was trying to figure out the band? Maybe there's some of those gems.
maybe compare that stuff to the most scary cheap american country-music, that you've ever heard - if you're not very careful, i send some of those tapes to you
I like the Popsy name. I wonder if Folksy and Jazsy cassettes were also available I also note the 5.90 price on some of them. I'm guessing that was Deutschmarks. Still about 3 Euros and that isn't allowing for inflation. Even cheap cassettes were expensive back in the 1970s.
The Soviets also made an attempt to make a festive-looking cassette. Ugh. And they were expensive too: 4 rubles per cassette, with average monthly salary around 120-160 rubles. @autoreverser, can you take cassettes out of cases and show them too?
Philips looks best to me - still the same general style, but clean and higher precision, printing machines are higher quality and can resolve finer print. What's up with all the names on the Fantavox? Looks like it has been made in a garage. Was it a legit brand?
ha, you‘re asking silly questions, mate - never heard of legendary Fantavox before ? highfuckingend-reference tape for: Telefunken Norelco Sony Orion blablabla … they didn‘t have space, but they were top of the rank for all those etc. like Tandberg, ReVoX, Nakamichi, Rotel AS WELL
I think these look cool. 70's designs rock, they're so colorful, with interesting fonts. Yeah I know everyone likes their Maxell XLII's from the 80s, but those designs are very boring to me, it's just a scan of the guy sitting in his couch, copied straight from the TV ad. No attempt at creativity at all. Same with the TDK's, they were too busy trying to look sleek and sophisticated, but had no emotion whatsoever. Denon and That's were some of the only 80s tapes with good styling, IMHO.
They may seem cool from today's vantage point. OTOH, it is good that we have a difference of opinions To be fair to the Soviets, they were not the only ones who stuck to 1960s design in as late as 1988. I got this one on a garage sale. Not a regular fair to find in California. I also have this, more period-appropriate one: And this one:
