Punkavenger Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I just acquired a 2002 4runner ... all top of the line but comes stock with a cassete player! Holy shit... I gave all my cassetes away years ago I constantly hear of people throwing out their cassetes ... send 'em to me! Mostly hard /indy rock aficionado ... Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Iron Maiden would work No f'n Eagles, man Thanks!
gorch Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Man, I've given away my cassettes almost 20 years ago. If I'd knew, I'd kept them for you.
hamerhead Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Get one of those cassette dealies with the mini plug and use your mp3 player.
velorush Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Get one of those cassette dealies with the mini plug and use your mp3 player.+1 WalMart (if you have those out there). The sound quality is actually better with the cassette adapter than it is with the more expensive (and more problematic) RF radio adapters.
Hamer Dave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I tool around in an astro van with dash cassette player (cd also, but pulled console along with player out). Scored big time at a garage sale. Former owners of a local record shop that closed down about 8 years ago was selling their old stock at 10 cents per! Some were still wrapped in cellophane. Extreme, David Lee Roth, Fates Warning, AC/DC, Dio, etc. is what I snagged. Mostly late 80's, early 90's. They said they'd have more in the future too! So check out garage sales, resale shops. You want to make sure those little felt pads are still in tact. After 20 plus years, I find many where they're detached. They won't play correctly, unless you reglue them, which is a bit of a pain. Good luck! Dave
Steve Haynie Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 PM me with an address and I will see what I can do.
cynic Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Scored big time at a garage sale.I worked with a guy in '94 who had started collecting 8-tracks just a couple years before I met him. He had hundreds of tapes and had bought every one at garage sales. I used to ride to work with him occasionally, and the screwdriver/matchbook trick worked as good as it ever did.
diablo175 Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I STILL have something like several hundred cassette tapes. PM me your email and I'll try to send you a list of what I got. If you're willing to cover shipping, they're yours.
kizanski Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Threw all of mine away about 5 months ago, along with a ton of VCR tapes (and my VCRs).
gtone Posted May 16, 2012 Posted May 16, 2012 Scored big time at a garage sale....and the screwdriver/matchbook trick worked as good as it ever did.Ya "matchbooks" - that's what we used too (wink, wink, nudge, nudge...).
blackfbiv Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 No f'n Eagles, man Now yer talkin' 8-track tapes, mango! On second thought that would probably be the Doobie Bros.
JohnnyB Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 I just acquired a 2002 4runner ... all top of the line but comes stock with a cassete player! Holy shit... I gave all my cassetes away years ago I constantly hear of people throwing out their cassetes ... send 'em to me! Mostly hard /indy rock aficionado ... Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Iron Maiden would work No f'n Eagles, man Thanks! There's a place in Seattle where you can get vintage pre-recorded cassettes at six cents apiece. The only catch: it's a bulk deal. $300 buys you 5,000 cassettes. But then you could cherry-pick the keepers, flip all the ones you don't want on eBy, overcharge on shipping like they all do, and make your money back and then some. Think of it as a summer project.
kizanski Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 There's a place in Seattle where you can get vintage pre-recorded cassettes at six cents apiece. The only catch: it's a bulk deal. $300 buys you 5,000 cassettes.But then you could cherry-pick the keepers, flip all the ones you don't want on eBy, overcharge on shipping like they all do, and make your money back and then some. Think of it as a summer project. Yeah, after I read "Six cents a piece," I dismissed it as over-priced.
santellavision Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 I know what he really wants to do with all that tape... (Slightly NSFW)Men in Black Actress Micaela Schaefer at movie premier
JohnnyB Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 There's a place in Seattle where you can get vintage pre-recorded cassettes at six cents apiece. The only catch: it's a bulk deal. $300 buys you 5,000 cassettes.But then you could cherry-pick the keepers, flip all the ones you don't want on eBy, overcharge on shipping like they all do, and make your money back and then some. Think of it as a summer project. Yeah, after I read "Six cents a piece," I dismissed it as over-priced. In reality, he should take his 4Runner to SpeakerLab and have them install a stereo mini-plug input on the car stereo so he can play an iPod through the system. You can also get a mini-plug cassette adapter to do the same thing, but IME it doesn't sound as good as getting the mini-plug wired into the front panel.
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