Cassette sales doubled in U.K. during 2020

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/cassette-sales-climb-to-their-highest-in-the-uk-in-17-years-the-official-top-40-best-sellers-of-2020-revealed__32058/

Unsurprising, but what surprises me are the artists who sold the most cassettes, buyers are definitely not the demographic I assumed were buying/ collecting cassettes!

https://theconversation.com/audio-cassettes-despite-being-a-bit-rubbish-sales-have-doubled-during-the-pandemic-heres-why-157097

Nicely put, actually.  Digital detachment and connection with the artist.

Top 40! 

This was a question on Richard Osmans House of Games. How many cassettes were sold last year (or something like that) and I thought maybe 10,000 at a push (my first instinct was 5 or 6,000) but it was 84,000! Couldn’t believe it

84000 idiots blinded by nostalgia for an age they know nothing about.

Just wait until they park their car in the sun and forget to take their cassettes out of the player

  On 3/20/2021 at 8:39 AM, Soloman Tump said:

Digital detachment and connection with the artist.

How about environmental detachment and connection to material waste. It's just more plastic junk. Can't help but thinking a lot of them would consider them environmentally conscious anyways. Human silliness. Add some NFT/bitcoin and the story is complete.

the music industry is back, baby

  On 3/20/2021 at 11:30 AM, Satans Little Helper said:

How about environmental detachment and connection to material waste. It's just more plastic junk. Can't help but thinking a lot of them would consider them environmentally conscious anyways. Human silliness. Add some NFT/bitcoin and the story is complete.

It's not single use plastic though so it's ooookkkkkk.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/music-streaming-environment-impact-cd-records-electricity-a8860001.html

  On 3/20/2021 at 12:21 PM, gnarlybog said:

the music industry is back, baby

it's good again

  On 3/20/2021 at 4:51 PM, Soloman Tump said:

It's not single use plastic though so it's ooookkkkkk.

Not sure how strong that argument is... Or rather, pretty sure it's bee-eesss ;D

digital media floats in the ether and is accessed via non-physical input such as meditation, contemplation and kundalini work. no environment is harmed.