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'Cassettes' explained, courtesy of Alphabeat

  • July 16, 2008
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM6oLM63YE

'Cassettes' are like MP3s but they are from the 1980s. If you are a 'cool kid' you will know that mixtapes are cassettes which
you give to people you are friends with. These days you can make them online. Or you could buy a cassette which isn't a cassette. So in spite of some people thinking cassettes are not cool (because they are from the 1980s) they are in fact cool in a knowingly cool sort of way. You sort of have to embrace the uncool­ness and then the coolness makes sense.

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