Just wanted to rant,someone please stick a fork in this format.That
being said when is the last time you bought a cassette not to record
on but of an artist?

It's been about ten years for me,i think it was R.E.M's out of time

1991

When was the last time you used a disquette for archival porpouses?

1. I am still using Chrome-Dioxide and Metal cassettes.
2. I am still using FDs for transporting small ammounts of data (although I am using packet writing more and more).

Sorry, I missed the question... I don't buy cassettes since 1992.

I've never purchased a cassette; hell, I've never even purchased an audio medium other than CD.

How old are you?
I'm 17 and I bought several LPs when I was little.

19. Never got into music until we got our CD player, and even then then I didn't really get into it until probably 14 or 15.

It was the early to mid 90's for me, too. Back around 1990-1992 though (and all thru the 80's) I bought a lot of cassettes, both blank and prerecorded. Now they're sitting in a box somewhere (too many memories of that time to just toss 'em out).

Agreed, it's pretty much a dead format. The blank ones will probably be around a long time tho, there were boatloads of stereos sold that allowed cassette recording (aren't there still quite a few being sold? I haven't checked in a while).

Yeah, they're still being sold. My sister has one. I'm waiting for the time when stereos allow recording to CDs, although the RIAA would probably kill that one dead.

I still buy used audio casettes. Does that count? I can pick up some great albums for around $1-$2 each. I also received a mix tape last month in the mail from a friend.

@Canar -- CD dubbing machines have been around for a long time. They don't even cost that much anymore.

Destron

My last one is "Cafe De Mar." I bought it 7 or 8 months ago. However, Casette is still be the main stream medium in my country, Thailand. It's because they are 3-4 times cheaper than CDs and 5-10 times than imported CDs. In addition, MP3 is not yet consider to be illigal here. (It's in a stage of gonna be.) People can sell almost freely and many many people love it.

mp3 cd (16 albums) ~ 2-3 USD, Original Copyright CD ~ 10 USD >_<

But because of the expensiveness and the lack of Portable MP3 Players, Casette can be alive for 3 years or more.

It was in 1989. Then I bought CDs.
I bought blank tapes until 1999, then I bought a CD burner.

Last time I bought a real album on tape was probably 1994ish. Never was into buying tapes, I started to like music right when CD's started to become really popular.

Probably around 1996-1997 (I was 14 or 15 years old) was the last time I bought blank tapes so I could record my own mix tapes from CD's for those long and lonely bus trips to high school soccer games.

Then I got a CD burner and the rest is history.

I borrow a lot of music from the library. I usally put titles on hold an wait until they come in to my local branch. The other day the librarian cam back with my stack of hold and there was a cassette on top. I was annoyed that I waited all that time and I had accidentily put a hold on the cassette!

Oy vey!

Last time was around 1991-92.
I bought "Violator" by Depeche Mode and later "Use Your Illusion II" by GNR.
Got my first CD Player in 1993.
My first CD was "Appetite For Destruction" (GNR) .Great album.

Last time I bought a tape was 6 months ago. It was a book on tape (I like listening to those in the car). Last time I bought an album on tape was, well, never. I've always just bought CDs.

Last time I bought a blank tape was in 1999, when for prerecorded audio tapes 1997.

I used tapes mainly to store C64 games than music.

Cassette and Floppy IS DEAD.
last i bought a cassette ? lol can't remember. more than 10years.
floppy? 3-5 years ago.
in my house you won't find any cassette or floppy

cassette = i cant recall, must be over 10 years ago
floppy = just used it few months ago - logging video tapes on a computer not connected to lan/wan and without cdrw drive... (small text files called edl's)

Gotta add my two cents.

The last pre-recorded tape I purchased was Queen's Greatest hits, back in 1993 or 1994. That was because my youngest brother had destroyed it (he was around 2 years old).

The last tape I purchased was back in 2000. I was taking a Japanese class, and we were required to have a conversation with a native Japanese speaker and record it.

The last floppy I used was about a month ago when I thought I had some bad ram and ran memtest86. Bios updates also still keep me chained to the floppy. Argh

The last pre-recorded tape I bought was a pack of mixtapes a couple of years ago, the last album I bought an tape was Music for the Jilted Generation (I think) and I still buy tapes to record on when I have to travel to my hospital appointments in London. Having a £10 walkman and a few cassettes stolen is better than having an expensive MP3 player nicked.

I have nothing against the people of London, it's just that I tend to look lost when I'm there, making myself a target for thieves.

That's exactly the same timeframe for me.

Last time I used a tape for recording an album is 4 years.

Have to be early 90's. Don't remember now. One of the first CD's I bought was Thomas Dolby. Might have been Fabulous Thundebirds though. Oh, and Pink Floyd - The Wall. That was an early buy as well. Too many hard nights to think back that far...

Last tape (a 6 tape box set like most of the rest I have) I bought was 6 months ago - a large amount of the non-digital portion of my Old Time Radio collection is on tape and many shows are not available on CD. I would estimate I have somewhere around $2,000+ worth of tapes purchased in the past 3 years,and the only thing keeping from me adding to that lately has been limited funds.
I do buy CDs whenever possible though - Radio Spirits is offering more on CD now.

I bought my last one in 1997. CDs became popular in my country only about 7 years ago. Even today, lots of people buy cassettes more than CDs as they are relatively inexpensive.

I don't remeber the year, but maybe you can tell. The only "original" ""compact cassette" i ever bought was the soundtrack for the movie "Ghostbusters" when it was on theaters. (BTW i accidentally deleted portions of that tape). Back then i rather buy a Vynil and then do copies to tapes, that way i could play the vynil disc less and only wear the tapes. It was obvious that vynil discs had better sound than tapes, but they could be used in cars, "portable" stereos, and later walkmans.

I still use the tapes, because they are so cheap and i still have a walkman, the idea of buying a small 32mb mp3 player never cough my attention.

Also, the idea of a portable player with moving parts does not seem so good to me. Portable CD players seem to die so quickly, i'm almost scared of buying an expensive portable with mp3 on cd capability. But i kinda like the idea of players with small laptop sized HDs, after all, those discs are supposed to tolerate some bumps, and they give decent sizes 10 or 20GB, and their size is like that of a "compact cassette" (with cover). And of course, love the idea that these devices can act as standard USB data HD discs too

I still use floppies, mainly on machines without CD-Roms and for small files only. Also to boot "memtest86" to test the memory. Floppy drives are still easier to find than USB ports, but both are becoming more and more deployed. A lack of a floppy replacement (such as ZIP drive) standarization has kept the people from using anything but floppies for carrying information around. Unless they can afford an USB storage device (few do).

The fun thing is that you can find a single floppy in a store to cost more than a CD-R media blank

BTW: VHS HI-FI is still an interesting cheap media to record audio, 6-8 hrs and very good _audio_ quality (only stereo VCRs)., although not so portable... Also i think they used VHS for the original digital audio recordings, wondered about digital data, hehe.

I never bought a cassette album but I bought hundred of black tapes for rec my own mixed tapes. I have around 300 cassettes lying in a box yet, but I sold my last cassette desk in 1995, then I bought a Mini Disk desk recorder, and then in 1999 I bought my computer and my cd recorder (a Matsushita CD_RW 4-8-32) and I still burn cds with it, I burnt around 1500 cd with my matsushita CD-RW and works really fine yet.-

Tapes are still going strong in some circles. Paticularly dj's who want to record their mixes without the hassle. A lot of techno clubs sell mixes from recent nights on tape and these get traded and copied up and down the country.

A mate of mine has boxes and boxes of tapes like these, some with relatively new material.

Personally I haven't bought a cassette since god knows when, haven't had a tape player (cassette or vhs!) for at least 5 years either.