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as someone well immersed in 'underground' culture for the better part of my life, i have traveled down the path of the DIY scene and all it has to offer. i have boxes and boxes of cassettes - and not just from the underground but all genres. in my younger days as a music fan (in the early/mid 90's) the majority of my time spent listening to music was in the car. cassettes made sense for that purpose. what do those cassettes do now? collect dust. i can't bare to part with them though b/c they are such a big part of my past and what has become my current musical vocabulary but in all honesty they, they sound like shit. that doesn't always matter to everyone and that's fine. vinyl has enjoyed a sort of comeback but back in the early 90's, i was buying vinyl when it had all but been abandoned. it was the same underground scene that was pressing music on vinyl. i think the reality is that this was done for the novelty more than anything - which is what i would suggest is the primary mot