Recently helped 2 different people clean out houses they were leaving.
My buddy Warren had owned three or four record stores over the last 40 years and told me, if you want those three boxes of cassettes you are welcome to them.
He gathered them all up over the past 20 years - people would just leave them at his store because he wasn’t paying a nickel for used cassettes. But he threw out all the crap and just kept the freak stuff , so this is probably the most carefully curated/hipster collection of cassettes I’ve ever seen.
He has factory/commercially made cassettes from CAN, Love, Big Star, a ton of avant-garde jazz, much early 70s country and - a collection of totally anonymous mix tapes .
A LOT from the 80’s.
Many of those are like walking around a mall in 1986 .
The old Lexus Camry has a CD player AND cassette player so I’m having a blast driving to and from work just throwing tapes in.
The tie dyes came from a buddy who followed the Dead and managed a couple regional jam bands.
(I think “regional jam band” might be one of the most horrifying phrases I’ve ever heard
)
Anyway, most were done by this tie dye legend “Laughing Dragon”.
And they’re ALL going on Etsy/EBay .
Ton of really cool designs, top-notch quality, but they don’t look cool on me!
My buddy Warren had owned three or four record stores over the last 40 years and told me, if you want those three boxes of cassettes you are welcome to them.
He gathered them all up over the past 20 years - people would just leave them at his store because he wasn’t paying a nickel for used cassettes. But he threw out all the crap and just kept the freak stuff , so this is probably the most carefully curated/hipster collection of cassettes I’ve ever seen.
He has factory/commercially made cassettes from CAN, Love, Big Star, a ton of avant-garde jazz, much early 70s country and - a collection of totally anonymous mix tapes .
A LOT from the 80’s.
Many of those are like walking around a mall in 1986 .
The old Lexus Camry has a CD player AND cassette player so I’m having a blast driving to and from work just throwing tapes in.
The tie dyes came from a buddy who followed the Dead and managed a couple regional jam bands.
(I think “regional jam band” might be one of the most horrifying phrases I’ve ever heard
)Anyway, most were done by this tie dye legend “Laughing Dragon”.
And they’re ALL going on Etsy/EBay .
Ton of really cool designs, top-notch quality, but they don’t look cool on me!
Those are some quality tye dyes.
shirt.
