A lot of the bands I like sell cassettes as the only physical way of owning their material. Is it really cheaper than just making a CD? Or is this just another version of 80's nostalgia?
western civilization has dementia and is reminiscing them back into being as the lights go out
i feel like this is just zoomers being weird lol. i have a band i produce for that did this with our last record and i was just like "cool.......... who has a car with a tape deck guys?"
We're in full late 80's/early 90's nostalgia mode now. The 2010's was 80's nostalgia mostly, though near the end of the decade the 90's nostalgia started becoming more popular. Really not looking forward to (and at the same time really looking forward to) around 2026 onwards when late90's/early 2000s nostalgia will start to enter the mainstream.
2026 onwards when late90’s/early 2000s nostalgia will start to enter the mainstream
Time for minidisc's big comeback.
Going to be rocking my ancient portable CD player with big fuck off headphones everywhere while playing GTA San Andreas, Burnout 3 and Need For Speed Underground on my PS2
Here's a USB 1.0 thumb drive with 16MB of space and our album at the lowest quality imaginable
With the new opus file format, encoding and variable bitrate it shouldn't sound that bad compared to an original MP3 from 2000 which would sound absolutely terrible with a whole album at that size.
We’re in full late 80’s/early 90’s nostalgia mode now.
Why's everybody actin' funny?
Why's everybody look so strange?
Why's everybody look so nasty?
What do I want with all these things?
That song is basically my experience of visiting a gas station high af at midnight with my high friends to buy some shit to eat after "the munchies" kicked in.
8.5/10 IGN not enough weird staring at everything
Can't wait in 4 years or so when it'll be topical again for me to complain about Pitchfork's 0.6/10 for The Boy With the Arab Strap.
Akshually it was 0.8/10 and they re reviewed the album in 2018 and gave it an 8.5/10.
But yeah late 90s/early 2000s pitchfork reviews were weird and have not aged well at all.
At least they didn't fall into the trap of giving ITAOTS a 6/10 like everyone else at the time.
"Oh I like my vocalists to have pleasant voices"
One of the original "lo-fi" albums. And the fact that lo-fi is back in the mainstream is just more proof that we're in full 90s nostalgia mode right now.
Whenever I see the words lo-fi, I immediately hear "HELLO THERE PAUL" in my head.
In the 2000's after decades of declining use vinyl records shot back up again in popularity, motivated by nostalgia and 'authenticity'.
Everything old is new again
