Christmas of 1987, my folks gave me this exact cassette rack, but even more holy crap worthy, it was three quarters filled with (then new) metal, punk and rock cassettes I’d wanted. Blew my 17-year-old mind, I tell ya. My parents have always been the best.
Of course, cassette tapes were a bane of their times, though nothing like 8-track tapes during the 1970s. You’re really telling your age if you know what I’m talking about there. 🙂 I lost so many cassettes from splitting or gnarling up inside the spindles of tape decks it’s cringeworthy.
Albeit, I wish I still had my box of cassettes I’d recorded hundreds of band and film director and actor personalities on. A gold mine from my past I’d love to hear again, no matter how long it would take to spin them all again.
–Ray Van Horn, Jr.
Roads Lesser Traveled 
That was part of my collection. Egads. I had too many items across all three platforms at the time (no 8-track, but they were well on their way out with the reel-to-reels by the time I started acquiring so much music.
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As always, my friend, we walked the same path, just different coasts. My parents had 8-tracks and I have vivid memories of those infernal things playing hopscotch, often in the middle of a song. My mom being such a Barry Manilow fan back then, was most displeased by the 8 track, lol
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“Cos it’s daybreak and you have to oh Mandy you came and you Copa-… Copacabana to the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy…”
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I still have my old cassettes. 😂
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I still have half my vinyl but only a handful of my 8 tracks and cassettes. Problem is I have nothing to play the last two on..
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I see one or two cassettes in there that I used to have …
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