Vijay Basrur

TDK cassettes

I had a constant supply of TDK cassettes from the US to record my music. Other brands I had were Sony, Memorex I think. My Dad had a few BASF tapes. He used be a big time spool collector until they ran out of fashion.

Before the CD’s came in I had all my music on tapes and most of them were recorded. its only when Magnasound (whatever happened to those guys?) started releasing English music I started to buy original tapes. Infact i had a huge collection of tapes which had recorded FM music from the top US FM channels. My aunt used to religiously record the top twenty on weekends and send them across once in a while.

I bought my first CD in 1994, with my first pay. Its was Hell Freezes over by Eagles. And that was pretty much the decline in my purchase of cassettes. Today I don’t own any tapes. Its all CD’s and I think the future is digital (mp3/iTunes etc.)

So I was a nostalgic when I came across an old TDK advertisement on the All Music blog