Between vinyl and CDs there was something else people
listened to music on.
Of all the formats on which music has been delivered
there has surely been none as impractical as the cassette tape. Flourishing comparatively briefly in the
crossover period when people stopped buying vinyl but couldn’t afford CDs,
tapes were the cheap and cheerful answer. For a while they were displayed as
prominently in shops as the other formats. Once people heard a CD though, they
would never go back and now tapes do not even enjoy the revival which vinyl periodically continues to
have.
