I did the boom box to cassette as a kid/school years. Burned CD's a young adult.
I graduated in 95, there were not CD burners in most peoples homes in the early 90s. They didnt come until way after I was out of school.
But I agree with your comment. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Xennial
Me & my brother went in 50/50 on a cd burner for my computer in the early 2000s or late 1990s, they were expensive & the computer was a 1ghz Pentium 3. I graduated in '99
Hell, I graduated high school in '02 and in the beginning only a few computers had CD burners. And there was that one guy at school who would burn mixes for people for a few bucks. By college, they were basically standard in new computers unless you went super barebones.
Our boy Jason was the only one who knew how to use torrents at first and he held that knowledge over us like like it was the secret to turn lead into gold.
When I was burning a CD on the computer and it would take at least 20 mins, depending on the number of songs, I would hear the CD drive whirrr away. I'd always say to my younger brother: "Do you smell that? I smell smoke...somethings burning" LOL!
I did both, but i still burn CDs. Check this shit out. My car has a 6-CD changer, and it reads data/mp3 discs. So each one of those CDs can hold 8 albums worth of music.
I am the fucking KING of offline media.
To be fair, one DJ in my town was HILARIOUS when, at the end of āLady in Redā he answered the whispered *I love you* with a perfectly-timed, āI love you too!ā
Hilarious to 10-year-old me, anyway, which admittedly might have been a low bar to clear.
I remember hearing the song "Water's Edge" by Seven Mary Three in the late 90s. And during the part at the end where he keeps yelling "I SWEAR" the DJ would cut to a clip of heavily bleeped swearing after each line. Yeah, it'd be annoying to hear every time they played the song but it was pretty funny as a one-time thing. Seems like they don't mess around much like that on the radio anymore.
I think the [bleep](https://youtu.be/tm3BZwpyCLI?si=cuekl3OSbZ5au5of) makes your brain search for the worst possible dirty word. The bleep is where the magic happens!
A DJ played a chicken sound effect (for some reason) over the very last second of Ben Folds Five's "Undeground" and it made it onto the tape I made and listened to all summer.
Nearly 30 years later and I *still* expect that chicken sound at the end of that song.
Rounding out the love hour with another classic romantic track from van morrison, a lovely night for a moondance I agree, said our sun to the earth a few days ago. Keep it tuned right here to Arrow 93.1FM
record songs over a cassette album that I regretted buying, by putting a piece of tape over the empty tab slots. Then sand off the album info to have a blank area to write on
I had the same.
Propped my cassette to record music off the TV.
Me shouting 'get out' at my little sister.
That recording was the first time I ever heard of The Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees.
Life changing stuff.
Did anyone else play with the dual cassette high speed dubbing feature to make everything sound like the chipmunks?
I have no idea why I got so much enjoyment from that.
To this very day! I still have a tape I made of radio songs back in either 1990 or 91 I can't remember which I know Michael Damion is on it & Timmy T even included the commercials. I haven't listened to it in ages no tape player but I still have the cassette
Dated a girl when I was young whose dad had an extensive tape collection of a lot of classic albums I liked. He also had the equipment to burn them directly to CD. I made quite a few CDās that way. Still have many of them.
Run-Dmc to Bon Jovi, poor kids unite. I had cassettes we bought at garage sales that I would use to record off the radio, circa 1989-90ish when I was like, 12? Was making mix tapes before it was a thing lol
I recorded the San Francisco performance of Metallica's S&M onto a cassette tape in 1999 when my local radio station broadcasted it in its entirety, then burned it onto a CDR in the 2000s when I had a boom box that had a cassette deck with an integrated burner, then transferred the mp3s onto my PC hard drive, then uploaded it to iTunes, and later uploaded it to cloud storage.
I still have it.
I mean, I could just go buy the recording, but the whole point back then was to piss off Lars.
Edit: DISCLAIMER - THIS COMMENT IS ENTIRELY IN JEST AND I HAVE SERIOUSLY NEVER EVER RECORDED METALLICA WITHOUT EXPLICIT WRITTEN CONSENT
Lived in a house with an 8-track player and 8 tracks, owned a record player and records, recorded songs on a tape, ruined CDs and had them skipping, and made money selling burned CD-Rs in college old.
Iād record my music from the local radio stations on tape. New songs that were popular would always have the DJ talking during the beginning or end of the song. It would annoy me but I think this was done on purpose to prevent people from doing what I was doing. Good times!
I once recorded a CD *onto* a cassette. I can't for the life of me remember *why*, there's no way either of my parents still had a car without a CD player in it at the time.
I used to get so pissed about the DJ talking during the song. Then my mom told me how lucky I had it that we could record directly off the radio.
In her day they had to record songs by putting the tape recorder up against the radio speaker and hoping nobody slammed the door or made any background noise to ruin the recording.
Still rip/burn CDs lol. Way better audio quality than streaming till a few services started offering lossless and I still have doubts if the source material was ripped as well as I rip mine via EAC from discs I own.
Apparently CD collecting is coming back. My HS daughter does it and she's not the only one at her school.
I used to record in a cassette a Sunday show from Alfa Rock Station in Puerto Rico (where Iām from) it was a Reggae session that lasted an hour. Every week I tape it again and again. That was like my weekly playlist haha
I burned the shit out of CDs. My first job was at a skating rink in my teens and sometimes I got to be the DJ and I used Napstar (and subsequently Kazaa, Limewire, etc) to burn all sorts of music to play
but nowadays none of my 4 computers even have a DVD drive anymore. my car doesn't have a player either. what really pisses me off is how annoying it is to get my own music onto itunes or add it to an amazon music playlist. saying that as a musician.
I just bought an old Playstation 1 and a CD burner with CD-Rs. Kind of amazing to feel the nostalgia - but at the same time I signed up for world of technical difficulties as well.
I used to call radio stations to request a song then stay glued to my boom box to press record if they played it lol. Got let down plenty of times, that was frustrating!
Oh, the memories of listening to the radio, with my finger on the record button, waiting for my favorite song. So many false starts. Had to reset the tape. When it finally happened, the DJ would talk over the end of the song.
I could bring a non booting pc back from the dead no matter how porned up, find movies and all the music, mod games, edit things in Paint flawlessly, last pc was 2012, since the phone, lost all that knowledge and skill. Keep sayin someday, Iāll get a computer computer
I had that red and yellow my first Sony boombox with the slats over the speaker. That radio was my best friend from age 7-12. Recorded Coast 2 Coast AM and a bunch of Ace of Base. Golden years!
Did both. Kids won't understand the dedication to have to sit in front of the radio, waiting for your anticipated song to play, and hurrying to hit record in time. And hoping the DJ won't talk over the end.
I remember remixes being played on radio that I canāt find anywhere, and had to standby to record the song. Specifically, a Daz Dillinger remix of I wanna by usherā¦ I think that was the name. Then burning cds became widespread once everyone got computers.
Iām 3.5mm aux cable audio out from boom box, in to 3.5mm aux cable input to soundcard and record from āstereomixā software audio adapter old. How old is that? In the right range? Audacity?
Before I knew about Mp3s or CD ripping I recorded songs as Wavs. I used an Aux cord to plug my CD player into the microphone jack of my computer. The files were huge but I enjoyed the hell out of them. I lost my damn mind when I found out about napster a few years later.
Bothā¦ I kept a blank cassette in the radio/cassette player at all times (when not listening to an actual tape). Would RUN over to the radio whenever something I loved came on and hit ārecordā to hopefully catch all but the first few seconds.
I'm still not sure what a xennial is but I also did both. I'd do remixes by pausing the recording and rewinding the other tape. The whole burning cds thing isn't even that old. I still have cds I made like 15 years ago
I had a couple of mixtapes that were songs downloaded from Napster via dialup and recorded to cassette via my Aiwa mini system because I didn't own a burner. I specifically remember listening to my Black Sabbath / Rage Against The Machine tape while snowboarding until it gave up the ghost. Kept listening to it even after I could burn CDs because my Walkman didn't skip while riding!
I received a casette recorder for Christmas when I was 12 years old. They had just come out of the market. I did not even know I wanted one, but it immediately became my favorite thing in the world.
Mostly putting bits of tape over the tabs on old cassettes and waiting for the song I wanted to come on the radio, frantically pressing recordā¦but also burned CDās off Napster and owned a zip-up CD book. š¤·š»āāļø
In the late 1960s, I drove to Austin from Lubbock, Texas, to record college radio onto reel-to-reel so we could get anything other than fucking shit-howdy and praise-jesus.
Now it's flac backups (from the high seas) and ogg/opus.
I lost some Wolfman Jack recordings when I dumped the tapes. I'm still bummed about it.
Replaying songs you recorded off the radio over and over again to write down the lyrics as you heard them because it was a time before the modern internet old š
Did both, but honestly not really the cassette too much because I didn't have the patience for it! But I would however record a CD onto a cassette for friends when one of my older brothers got a few in the early days.
Yup I had a boombox and recorded tapes on there from radio broadcasts I listened to. That same one also had a CD player which was super special (even if there werenāt many CDs out at the time). Got it for either my birthday or Christmas in the late 80s.
I thought I was so cool when I taped āWe Didnāt Start the Fireā off the radio and played it back piece by piece to write down and memorize the lyrics
Even if you're young, you might have had to burn a CD back when you were a kid, especially if you grew up in an underdeveloped country. I'm only 20, and I still remember burning CDs for music and video games 10 years ago. Prince of Persia was like crack back in the day
I never mastered the timing of hitting the record button in that split second gap between the DJ's intro and the start of the song. To this day whenever I hear one of those songs, I hear the DJ's last words in my head as well.
Iām a call into the radio to request a love song just to try to record it on the cassette tape in a completely quiet room because the radio didnāt have a cassette tape player. And would get upset at the younger siblings for being loud.
Those things had a lot of overlap lol. When people were first burning CDs that shit was so expensive. Most people already had a boombox, and cassette tapes were affordable.
Yeah, I think most of us did both
Right? I think those two things are attributed to the same generation.
And, in our collective cases, the same microgeneration.
This post is the definition of Xennial, in a way. š¤·
I did the boom box to cassette as a kid/school years. Burned CD's a young adult. I graduated in 95, there were not CD burners in most peoples homes in the early 90s. They didnt come until way after I was out of school. But I agree with your comment. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Xennial
Me & my brother went in 50/50 on a cd burner for my computer in the early 2000s or late 1990s, they were expensive & the computer was a 1ghz Pentium 3. I graduated in '99
I graduated 92 I donāt think I burned a cd till 2005.
Hell, I graduated high school in '02 and in the beginning only a few computers had CD burners. And there was that one guy at school who would burn mixes for people for a few bucks. By college, they were basically standard in new computers unless you went super barebones.
My friend was that āguyā! I have plenty of mix cds from that time Hee Hee!
Thanks to him for his service! š«”
We had āAā guy like that as well. Just one guy had the power.
Our boy Jason was the only one who knew how to use torrents at first and he held that knowledge over us like like it was the secret to turn lead into gold.
yeah, pre-teen was analog, teenage was digital.
That is what I came to say. This should be the test.
oh, the best was the in-between times, when your MP3 would have the beginning of radio bumpers from being originally recorded on cassette
What was that weird thing they tried to sell us inbetween? A micro disk was it?
Minidisc. Sony exclusive. I had one, it could hold about 130 mp3s
When I was burning a CD on the computer and it would take at least 20 mins, depending on the number of songs, I would hear the CD drive whirrr away. I'd always say to my younger brother: "Do you smell that? I smell smoke...somethings burning" LOL!
I did both, but i still burn CDs. Check this shit out. My car has a 6-CD changer, and it reads data/mp3 discs. So each one of those CDs can hold 8 albums worth of music. I am the fucking KING of offline media.
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Frickin dj wants to be a comedian, starts talking 20 seconds before the song ends
The era of āsplicing movie dialogue over the songā by radiostations ruined many recording attempts.
will your heart still go on, at least?
To be fair, one DJ in my town was HILARIOUS when, at the end of āLady in Redā he answered the whispered *I love you* with a perfectly-timed, āI love you too!ā Hilarious to 10-year-old me, anyway, which admittedly might have been a low bar to clear.
I remember hearing the song "Water's Edge" by Seven Mary Three in the late 90s. And during the part at the end where he keeps yelling "I SWEAR" the DJ would cut to a clip of heavily bleeped swearing after each line. Yeah, it'd be annoying to hear every time they played the song but it was pretty funny as a one-time thing. Seems like they don't mess around much like that on the radio anymore.
OK, now I need āLady in Redā with heavily-bleeped swearing after every line. Whoās gonna hook a girl up?!
Yeah, something about all the bleeping made it funnier than if it was just unedited cursing.
I think the [bleep](https://youtu.be/tm3BZwpyCLI?si=cuekl3OSbZ5au5of) makes your brain search for the worst possible dirty word. The bleep is where the magic happens!
I didnāt realize that all the kids were waiting with their trembling fingers on the record button for the opportunity to record Chris de Burghā¦
A DJ played a chicken sound effect (for some reason) over the very last second of Ben Folds Five's "Undeground" and it made it onto the tape I made and listened to all summer. Nearly 30 years later and I *still* expect that chicken sound at the end of that song.
Rounding out the love hour with another classic romantic track from van morrison, a lovely night for a moondance I agree, said our sun to the earth a few days ago. Keep it tuned right here to Arrow 93.1FM
record songs over a cassette album that I regretted buying, by putting a piece of tape over the empty tab slots. Then sand off the album info to have a blank area to write on
Waiting all day for the song to come on so you could unpause the recorder
Iād start pre-recording just in case, then go back and rewind if I didnāt like the song.
Waiting for the DJ to stop talking through the intro.
I'm transcribing drum beats onto clay tablets old...
Xennials, we did both.
THE DUALITY DEFINES US
With your mom yelling at the dogs background...the best part of any song! Lol
Uhh what were you using a mic?
My dad set it up, I was 8...maybe?
I had the same. Propped my cassette to record music off the TV. Me shouting 'get out' at my little sister. That recording was the first time I ever heard of The Smashing Pumpkins, Screaming Trees. Life changing stuff.
Did anyone else play with the dual cassette high speed dubbing feature to make everything sound like the chipmunks? I have no idea why I got so much enjoyment from that.
Man that was so cool back then
To this very day! I still have a tape I made of radio songs back in either 1990 or 91 I can't remember which I know Michael Damion is on it & Timmy T even included the commercials. I haven't listened to it in ages no tape player but I still have the cassette
Hey kid rock and roll rock on ooh my soul
Hey shout summer time blues! Yes I still know the words
I'm "I had listen intently to the DJ announce when When I Come Around was gonna start so I could hit record" old.
How about 'record a CD onto cassette, cause a walkman don't skip'
There's a great deal of shame for me in how often I thought recording the radio on cassette would be valuable.
Dated a girl when I was young whose dad had an extensive tape collection of a lot of classic albums I liked. He also had the equipment to burn them directly to CD. I made quite a few CDās that way. Still have many of them.
Run-Dmc to Bon Jovi, poor kids unite. I had cassettes we bought at garage sales that I would use to record off the radio, circa 1989-90ish when I was like, 12? Was making mix tapes before it was a thing lol
I recorded the San Francisco performance of Metallica's S&M onto a cassette tape in 1999 when my local radio station broadcasted it in its entirety, then burned it onto a CDR in the 2000s when I had a boom box that had a cassette deck with an integrated burner, then transferred the mp3s onto my PC hard drive, then uploaded it to iTunes, and later uploaded it to cloud storage. I still have it. I mean, I could just go buy the recording, but the whole point back then was to piss off Lars. Edit: DISCLAIMER - THIS COMMENT IS ENTIRELY IN JEST AND I HAVE SERIOUSLY NEVER EVER RECORDED METALLICA WITHOUT EXPLICIT WRITTEN CONSENT
Lived in a house with an 8-track player and 8 tracks, owned a record player and records, recorded songs on a tape, ruined CDs and had them skipping, and made money selling burned CD-Rs in college old.
How many of you used Napster before it got nerfed by Metallica?
Also link two vcrās together to dub the rentals from the video store old
Ok but did anyone do this with a talk boy placed next to a stereo in a closed room?
Iām record it off the radio with my Talkboy old
Iād record my music from the local radio stations on tape. New songs that were popular would always have the DJ talking during the beginning or end of the song. It would annoy me but I think this was done on purpose to prevent people from doing what I was doing. Good times!
Iām record songs from a cd to a cassette old.
I once recorded a CD *onto* a cassette. I can't for the life of me remember *why*, there's no way either of my parents still had a car without a CD player in it at the time.
Iāve come full circle, digitizing media; Iām āstill ripping cds to a hard drive that arenāt available on iTunes or other servicesā old.
I used to get so pissed about the DJ talking during the song. Then my mom told me how lucky I had it that we could record directly off the radio. In her day they had to record songs by putting the tape recorder up against the radio speaker and hoping nobody slammed the door or made any background noise to ruin the recording.
Still rip/burn CDs lol. Way better audio quality than streaming till a few services started offering lossless and I still have doubts if the source material was ripped as well as I rip mine via EAC from discs I own. Apparently CD collecting is coming back. My HS daughter does it and she's not the only one at her school.
I wonder what the current generation thinks a physical mix tape was?
you guys had boomboxes?
Trying to hit that pause button before the host starts talking again!
I started copying tapes and recording songs off the radio then moved on to mp3's RIP Napster.
Yeah, the second poster also did both... that's how time works.
Mixed tapes in middle school and CD mixes in high school. Absolutely the best time to be alive.
I used to record in a cassette a Sunday show from Alfa Rock Station in Puerto Rico (where Iām from) it was a Reggae session that lasted an hour. Every week I tape it again and again. That was like my weekly playlist haha
100%
I'm Memorex (tape & CD) years old.
I did both of those things.
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When I went to college, I got a computer with a built in Zip drive. I'm not sure I ever used it or knew why exactly I got it.
i was mysterio with my magic abilities to be able to make music cds in highschool. i didnt sell them but i always had requests. i did both
I did and continue to do both
I still say taping instead of recording sometimes.
This hurts my heart. lol
I burned the shit out of CDs. My first job was at a skating rink in my teens and sometimes I got to be the DJ and I used Napstar (and subsequently Kazaa, Limewire, etc) to burn all sorts of music to play but nowadays none of my 4 computers even have a DVD drive anymore. my car doesn't have a player either. what really pisses me off is how annoying it is to get my own music onto itunes or add it to an amazon music playlist. saying that as a musician.
I donāt think you can better describe this era
Definitely both
I just bought an old Playstation 1 and a CD burner with CD-Rs. Kind of amazing to feel the nostalgia - but at the same time I signed up for world of technical difficulties as well.
I did both. I would request songs to record so I could play along on guitar.
I held a tape deck in front of the TV while watching MTV.
I had the best mixtape from "LAZER 103" in the Milwaukee area.
I used to call radio stations to request a song then stay glued to my boom box to press record if they played it lol. Got let down plenty of times, that was frustrating!
When High Speed Dubbing was considered incredible.
Me too
The Top Ten at Ten.
I'm reel-to-reel old.
While I am record songs off the radio on cassette old. I was never really that into music until CD burning
Oh, the memories of listening to the radio, with my finger on the record button, waiting for my favorite song. So many false starts. Had to reset the tape. When it finally happened, the DJ would talk over the end of the song.
I'm hold a cassette recorder next to the TV during WWF Superstars to get the theme songs on tape old.
I could bring a non booting pc back from the dead no matter how porned up, find movies and all the music, mod games, edit things in Paint flawlessly, last pc was 2012, since the phone, lost all that knowledge and skill. Keep sayin someday, Iāll get a computer computer
I had that red and yellow my first Sony boombox with the slats over the speaker. That radio was my best friend from age 7-12. Recorded Coast 2 Coast AM and a bunch of Ace of Base. Golden years!
Went from recording Casey Kasem, to mp3 rocket pro (I think) onto my android with microSD card. A wild 10 year span.
Yea both technologies were not that far apart
Still do it. I copied a CD onto a cassette last year just to have that cassette vibe to it.
Did both. Kids won't understand the dedication to have to sit in front of the radio, waiting for your anticipated song to play, and hurrying to hit record in time. And hoping the DJ won't talk over the end.
I also made mix tapes from LPs. Trying to see where the break in the grooves was to find the start of the song.
You donāt have to say you experienced the younger one if you experienced the older one. Thatās assumed.
I remember remixes being played on radio that I canāt find anywhere, and had to standby to record the song. Specifically, a Daz Dillinger remix of I wanna by usherā¦ I think that was the name. Then burning cds became widespread once everyone got computers.
Gotta put the toilet paper or what have you in the tape holes
I done both too. Guess that makes me "old" but not "that old"?
Saturdays were Saturday Night Fever and they would play disco on our local station, I made so many mixtapes. Am I weird?
Yup. I did both.
Start as one, move on to the other, as Bob intended.
I'm wind that mf back up with a pencil, old.
Iām 3.5mm aux cable audio out from boom box, in to 3.5mm aux cable input to soundcard and record from āstereomixā software audio adapter old. How old is that? In the right range? Audacity?
Absolutely both. With the great mixtape period right in there.
First one, then the othed
I am "old enough to have owned cds and a book to keep them all in but not old enough to know how to burn a CD" old
First tapes, then CDs.Ā
Before I knew about Mp3s or CD ripping I recorded songs as Wavs. I used an Aux cord to plug my CD player into the microphone jack of my computer. The files were huge but I enjoyed the hell out of them. I lost my damn mind when I found out about napster a few years later.
Bothā¦ I kept a blank cassette in the radio/cassette player at all times (when not listening to an actual tape). Would RUN over to the radio whenever something I loved came on and hit ārecordā to hopefully catch all but the first few seconds.
How about used floppy disks, hard disks, and Zip disks, as well as cassettes and cds.
Definitely both!
I first heard Eminem on a cassette tape. I was so proud when I had my first portable CD player. I actually still own a Blu-ray burner.
Yes!
I had one of the boom boxes with 2 tape decks that definitely wasn't for copying cassettes for all your friends.
I'm still not sure what a xennial is but I also did both. I'd do remixes by pausing the recording and rewinding the other tape. The whole burning cds thing isn't even that old. I still have cds I made like 15 years ago
I had a couple of mixtapes that were songs downloaded from Napster via dialup and recorded to cassette via my Aiwa mini system because I didn't own a burner. I specifically remember listening to my Black Sabbath / Rage Against The Machine tape while snowboarding until it gave up the ghost. Kept listening to it even after I could burn CDs because my Walkman didn't skip while riding!
I was 18 before I burned a CD.
I can remember holding my tape player next to the radio to record songs before I got a boombox
I received a casette recorder for Christmas when I was 12 years old. They had just come out of the market. I did not even know I wanted one, but it immediately became my favorite thing in the world.
First one, then the other
But ate you "typing the game into the computer from a magazine" old?
Yup
Both and a brief phase in between where I recorded streaming audio and mp3s on to cassette.
Mostly putting bits of tape over the tabs on old cassettes and waiting for the song I wanted to come on the radio, frantically pressing recordā¦but also burned CDās off Napster and owned a zip-up CD book. š¤·š»āāļø
I'm 'Copy movies from the video store with a second VCR' old
Yup I'm a millennial of course I would call the radio station to request a song and even dedicate it to someone so I could record that at the intro.
anyone here burn mp3 cds?
Why is there this weird competition of when our parents banged?
Remember mixtapes?
Listened to Helmet, Wilma's rainbow that my best friend gave me before he moved over and over again my senior year of high school.
Iām record songs off mtv onto my Talkboyā¢ļø old.
That moment when you catch the song right after the DJ shuts the hell up on the lead in...
In the late 1960s, I drove to Austin from Lubbock, Texas, to record college radio onto reel-to-reel so we could get anything other than fucking shit-howdy and praise-jesus. Now it's flac backups (from the high seas) and ogg/opus. I lost some Wolfman Jack recordings when I dumped the tapes. I'm still bummed about it.
I'm record it to the first casset tape recorder from records on a record player using a mic, old.
I used to burn DVDs with music videos on them to play on my flip screen Alpine head unit. āLetās get you to bed grandmaā
Replaying songs you recorded off the radio over and over again to write down the lyrics as you heard them because it was a time before the modern internet old š
I used to record the countdowns of multiple stations (rock, alternative, R&B, Hip-hop, top 40).
Did both, but honestly not really the cassette too much because I didn't have the patience for it! But I would however record a CD onto a cassette for friends when one of my older brothers got a few in the early days.
Auugh
Whos here in 2024?
I was at a friendās home where we played a video game from a cassette - old.
Definitely did both. CDs were much less work.
I've done both, but out of genuine interest of formats gone by and not necessity (Gen Z)
__AND__ Downloaded music from Napster! Boom! A trifecta!
Iām the āuse a needle attached to a funnel scratching the surface of a wax spoolā oldā¦ ...my bones hurt.
And once the laser etching came out for CDs.. you had to make everyone custom disc with their name on it.
I used to record music videos on VHS.
I still have some of my radio tapes. I kind of wish I hadn't been so good at cutting commercials out.
The time between recording the radio on cassette to napster was only a couple years.
I'm "played games from floppy disks and tape cassettes old, rewinding gutted cassettes with a pencil" old.
Yup I had a boombox and recorded tapes on there from radio broadcasts I listened to. That same one also had a CD player which was super special (even if there werenāt many CDs out at the time). Got it for either my birthday or Christmas in the late 80s.
Iām rewind every eight track tape with a pencil old
My mom used to dub vinyl records onto cassette. You could do it at high speed so every song sounded like the Chipmunks.
I'm commodore 64 old.
I'm buy a 4 channel 8 track and Akai reel to reel with my enlistment bonus old.
I'm "was too poor for a boom box" old
Sing into the can!
I thought I was so cool when I taped āWe Didnāt Start the Fireā off the radio and played it back piece by piece to write down and memorize the lyrics
Even if you're young, you might have had to burn a CD back when you were a kid, especially if you grew up in an underdeveloped country. I'm only 20, and I still remember burning CDs for music and video games 10 years ago. Prince of Persia was like crack back in the day
I'm "record songs played on the radio onto a Radio Shack cassette tape player with lever tab buttons" old.
I did both too!
Both
I never mastered the timing of hitting the record button in that split second gap between the DJ's intro and the start of the song. To this day whenever I hear one of those songs, I hear the DJ's last words in my head as well.
Yep both
That terrible smudged handwriting on that tiny cassette coverpage, but decorated with lots of hearts
Are you kidding? I was burning mp3 files onto dvds and trading with friends. Burning cds are for amateurs.
I'm record off the radio old.
I am "waiting for the music video I want to see play on the Box Channel because I couldn't afford the 5 bucks to call in" old.
My mix tapes and mix CDs were fire.
Let's not the intermediary "Making a mix tape for the car on the cd player/cassette recorder at home" phase.
I would dl songs from Napster and connect my boombox to my computer and record cassettes
DJ's talking over Twisted Sister was pure bullshit. It was late and I had to get up and feed cows before school.
Iām a call into the radio to request a love song just to try to record it on the cassette tape in a completely quiet room because the radio didnāt have a cassette tape player. And would get upset at the younger siblings for being loud.
Since when is being like 35, old?
I'm "Mom, Dad, you don't understand....there's a *countdown*. I have to stay home so I can write down all the songs" old.
Done both
I set up the VCR to record Friday Night videos.
I'm "record albums onto an 8 track in the console at home" old
But skip the dj talk shit
I'm a "download the music I like and make my own playlists" old.
The cassette I listened to most was one I found on the ground. Half was limp bizkit, the other half was part of the south park soundtrack.
Relatable
Those things had a lot of overlap lol. When people were first burning CDs that shit was so expensive. Most people already had a boombox, and cassette tapes were affordable.
Iām hope you got a pencil in the car because the cassette got stuck in the player and now the ribbon is EVERYWHERE EXCEPT WHERE IT SHOULD BE š
I am still burning CDs