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This thread got me wanting to hit up some Goodwills and Salvation Armys because its been a minute and I made some pretty decent scores.
Method Man and Mary J - All I Need single, in mint firm cardboard cassette holder
Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn Dodgers single, ok cardboard holder condition
Nas - It Was Written
A Tribe Called Quest - Beats, Rhymes and Life
Update!!!
8/20/11:
It's starting to become apparent to me that coming up on tapes via just thrift store jack moves is gonna prove really difficult in coming days, months, yrs, etc, ...I'm noticing a real shift in donation cycles and frankly a lot of thrift stores just ain't gettin cassettes anymore...
hence, I been lookin around in other places....
for those of you that don't stay out west and have never heard of a swap meet or a flea market, in a nutshell what it is essentially, is when some business person rents out a large area or building to a bunch of different vendors who all sell different things..just imagine like, 40 yard sales going on in one place, and all of the vendors kickin up a percentage of their sales or paying a monthly rent for their space...
So in any case, I came up on this classic at a flea market and really it wasn't possible to lift this joint seeing as how my dude was watching me and his small lot like a hawk...
I haggled w/ dude for awhile and he let me roll with a brand new double cassette format of one of Hip-Hop's seminal releases of all time, for a mere $3...he had it originally priced at $5 and all I did was make an offer of $3 and he agreed... he didn't have any other Hip-Hop tapes so this one stuck out like a sore thumb in his lot of mostly country and rock tapes...
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i....5&disp=thd&zw
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i....4&disp=thd&zw
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i....3&disp=thd&zw
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i....2&disp=thd&zw
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&i....1&disp=thd&zw
[quote-BIG DO]It's starting to become apparent to me that coming up on tapes via just thrift store jack moves is gonna prove really difficult in coming days, months, yrs, etc, ...I'm noticing a real shift in donation cycles and frankly a lot of thrift stores just ain't gettin cassettes anymore... [/quote]
Time to start looking more to the record conventions probably, when the thrift shops don't have the tapes you can almost always find them sold at the conventions. I go their to buy vinyl though 95% of the time.
ILL, I didnt even know there was such thing as the record fair. Now I GOTTA find one!!! BIG UP B!!!
Time to start looking more to the record conventions probably, when the thrift shops don't have the tapes you can almost always find them sold at the conventions. I go their to buy vinyl though 95% of the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatboybrandon
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you're right, record conventions be havin em', but at a premium usually, and trust you won't be jacking shit from the cats that sell they shit there... lol...
I wonder what that $6,000 record was that is so rare.
@BIG D O .....i am fucking jealous of your illmatic tape. illmatic and 36 chambers are the only albums where i have the vinyl and cd and i want the tapes of both cause thatd be dope to have all formats.
look around for that Illmatic bruh...you can find it.. I have two copies that I found rather easily... you in NY tho, so I dunno, out there more ppl might be hip to it's true value...Quote:
Originally Posted by wutangclan97chamber
and yes, goin full circle and owning an album in every format is thee shit... have that in a few albums...
Uploaded some pics of my collection here:
http://thedentistschair93.blogspot.com/
Only about half of my collection right there. Will be adding to it eventually as there's more gems hidden away that I gotta dig out. The tape heads should appreciate it.
I was in Paterson, New Jersey last week and found Record City which to my surprise had a healthy selection of cassettes from all genres; they sell them for five dollars each and I ended up leaving with eighty five dollars worth of cassettes and I plan to cruise by again later this week and cop some more.
Looking forward to buy a lot of cassete tapes! Got some money to spend... If anybody of you all is willing to sell some tapes (Wu-Tang, Mobb Deepp, west coast shit, everything) - let me know! Just PM me!
We can deal for real !
Putin approved?
In Soviet Russia, Immobilarity cassette flips you!
Yep! Got his permission!Quote:
Originally Posted by check two
I started a thread on cassettes and got directed to this thread so here's my little collection
There's only two record stores in my city so finding cassettes anywhere other than the Internet is difficult
I'm a sucker for anything rare/limited edition so these were a bit of a must buy- Raekwon, R.A The Rugged Man, Onyx #wakedafucup, MF doom & Granddad Woolly - those cassettes were all bought from the artists retailers but the others I found in the two record stores
http://i.imgur.com/oH4gCGr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2IfojPb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L5DKjIR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YIuEFuf.jpg
not big fan of cassetes but this MF DOOM package looks dope as a fuck....
Can someone help me out on expanding lisy of these sampler cassette tapes? Thank you.
http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90539
I picked up Redman's classic 'Muddy Waters' on tape for 5 bucks.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/11ffe4654...7agbo1_400.jpg
and I just copped a new cassette from Youtaro, Turn Of Rawtip
http://www.weunderground.net/wp-cont...ND-785x785.jpg
First heard about him on a collab he did with Mujo (fellow SP-Forums.com member) called Hypnotized Loops.
Selling some of my rare tapes.
Souls Of Mischief 93 still
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794760153?...84.m1555.l2649
Nortorious B.I.G. Ready To Die (Black Canadian version)
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794771029?...84.m1555.l2649
2Pac Me Against The World
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794775293?...84.m1555.l2649
Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794780829?...84.m1555.l2649
De La Soul Buhloone Mind State Canadian promo
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794790943?...84.m1555.l2649
DOOMSTARKS Victory Laps
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161794794978?...84.m1555.l2649
Abdominal Ab Flex
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/161795072192?...84.m1555.l2649
I see that rappers are putting out cassette versions sometimes now. I know the cassette was a big part of hip hop beyond just a platform of music but I don't get the vintage appeal of them unlike vinyl.
I used to make heaps of mix TAPES back in the 90's but. Cassettes were cool
Is it just me or does this read like a CharlesJones post hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by check two
Price gouging for cassettes on eBay is ridiculous right now. I see singles for $20.00 to $30.00. Albums are even worse.
Get vinyl instead
Bump
It's ridiculous how prices of (second hand) cds have gone down and those of cassettes have gone up
I never really went in for vinyl
that DOOM double tape package a few posts up still gets my d*ck hard
Some hard to find CDs have become beyond expensive. For example, check out a lot of those old No Limit CD's.
this surprises me too (just like the Big Time album you mentioned). I have lots of these, they were available by the dozens in Europe, even the names that didn't ring a bell at all. good distribution. clearly albums that sold well on the strength of the name of their record label (think Death Row too). what I did know was that the very early NL albums had gotten expensive, like for instance King George, you know the guys that got thrown off the label before No Limit grew bigQuote:
Originally Posted by b-dolo
NL put out so much that I still have I'd say only half or so of their album, but I do own the other half on burned CDrs. up to a certain point in the late 2000s this way I'd say I have the full catalog
I have seen a trend recently with some the price of rap CD's skyrocketing in price. Not sure of the reason, another example, I was looking to add some of De La Soul's catalog to my collection and the prices of their earlier albums where eye opening.
Best Buy and Target don't sell them anymore because people are streaming. I was on Ebay the other day and I was surprised that they're b/w $14-$20.Quote:
Originally Posted by b-dolo
I got rid of my cassette tapes years ago. Most were radio recorded but once YouTube came into play, I tossed them. I have over 60 CDs at home and lately, I've been ripping them into MP3.
It's a hobby for me. I have a collection of CD's. I not sure the exact amount. Last time I counted it was between 500 to 600. This is all rap music, mostly from 1985-2005. Something about the physical copy, liner notes, photos/artwork, shout out's/thank you's, who produced and what was sampled I am enticed by. I started doing when I was young and kept with over the years.
^^same here with the collecting, I like the booklets with all of the info and photographs
my last new tape I bought was actually of a rap group in Audiobooth, Basement Dwellaz, 'Party in a pyramid'
https://basementdwellaz.bandcamp.com...y-in-a-pyramid
I see it's been three years already. how time flies. good tape btw!
@ Ironman, in what music genres are your CDs?
I don't think there is anywhere to even buy new CD's where I live, except a few mom and pop local record stores that might carry a select few. I do miss the days of CD shopping at places like Sam Goody, Best Buy, Circuit city. Plus having BMG and Columbia house to buy through the mail. The last vehicle I bought didn't even come with the standard CD player. It is a dying format.
all record stores here in a city of about 250,000 people have closed, except for one French franchise's multimedia store and two niche shops (heavy metal/hard rock & hiphop) I know of. there used to be days when I visited 6 to 7 music stores that carried all formats, including one excellent small shop that sold second hand only and under the counter bootlegs. and that was just the city center, a radius of about ten blocks. there were others in the suburbs as well.
I saw these shops gradually disappear between 2005 and 2015. the first ones to go were those in the suburbs
I have a collection of about a couple of hundred original CDs & tapes that I put on the highest, hardest to reach shelf in my living room, that I barely touch since at least 5, 10 years now. I'm gradually growing out of hip hop & only check high profile releases by classic artists like Nas (for instance) and Wu-General albums. The last album I bought on CD was Wu's A Better Tomorrow. If I want to hear an album that I own on CD or tape, I stream it, most of the time.
Target still sells CD's, only top 40 type stuff though, so do not go there looking for anything that is not hot on the radio. F.Y.E. still sells CD's and DVD's although those sections have been greatly downsized. They do not even sell media shelves anymoreQuote:
Originally Posted by IrOnMaN
I have all of BTNH albums with Wu Tang, jazz, RnB, and a some rock albums. The latest album that I've purchased was Rick Ross - Port of Miami 2, Bizzy Bone - Carbon Monoxide.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hal Incandenza
Yeah, I know. Anything's online or on an app. Before we know it, blu-rays will die out. CDs have better audio vs MP3. Bluetooth connection isn't crisp.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Daniel Davis
i just download everything for free