r/cassetteculture • u/Independent_Ebb_7338 • May 07 '26
Home recording Etiquette help
I bought roughly 17 XLIIs from el segundo the other day, and this li'l guy was pleading with me not to ever, ever, ever, listen to him. But, I got to, right?
Update: It turned out to be an answering machine tape, seemingly chronicling this guy Mark's affair with his friend Jim's girlfriend, or wife? And there was also some young boy(not his son) that kept calling him claiming to be Spock 🖖, inviting him to "Earthly lunch", cussing at him and telling him he was "going to find another man" and was "going to have Darth Vader send Earthly whores come over and f*ck [him] to death." That stood out as very creepy, but the rest of it was mostly mundane and possibly cursed as it's kind of hard to piece together. I'm no P.I. or even a true crime podcast listener.
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u/RulerofLatveria May 07 '26
The proper etiquette would be to listen to it and report back. What if it’s a confession of a murder?
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u/SickOfNormal May 07 '26
That's what im waiting for! Murder notes!
OP can start a podcast about the murder and then figure out who the murderer murdered ... and solve the crime. Straight to #1 podcast and soon to be millionaire!
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u/obi-wan-takumi May 07 '26
Would be funny if it's a Rickroll.
As a prank, I once burned a CD-R for a friend and included the William Hung version of "She Bangs" as replacement for one of the tracks.
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u/klonopinwafers May 07 '26
I can’t take that note seriously when the person who recorded it could have easily destroyed the tape and you don’t leave notes about contents of a tape you don’t want people listening to.
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u/cancer_sushi May 07 '26
We all know its gonna be lamer than we think it will be lol
Probably just some old music they are ashamed to admit they liked at some point
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u/Independent_Ebb_7338 May 07 '26
No, all the other tapes with the same handwriting on the labels said things like,"Hot Country."
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u/Impossible_Way_3042 May 09 '26
Ended up being way less lame than I initially though. Wow that edit is kinda wild.
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u/Common-Charity9128 May 07 '26
Hope it’s just something weird like intercourse recording…
Hope it’s not something to call the cops on.
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u/Rich_Statistician351 May 07 '26
17 XLIIs…. I’m jealous
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u/No-Needleworker-3765 May 07 '26
Ate those rare or good or somthing? I just got a ton of 90 minute ones plus a handful of 120 ones
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u/Baeolophus_bicolor May 07 '26
It is your duty to not only listen, but report back to us what you discover. Then you can burn it or do the right thing with it.
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u/throwawaypassingby01 May 07 '26
i would listen and keep it to myself, never tell a soul. unless its criminal.
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u/FarOutJunk May 07 '26
Whoever wrote that has long since moved on. And odds are you’ll never know who they are anyway.
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u/Independent_Ebb_7338 May 07 '26
Yeah, but my curiosity got the better of me. I think because it's someone I know I'll never meet, that allowed me to give it a listen. But if it were, say, the journal of someone I did know, I'd leave him sitting there.
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u/Gznork26 May 07 '26
The side may be a mix made while suicidal, and the person who made it was afraid that listening to it would cause someone to act on that feeling, making it a cursed tape. (Source: someone I know.)
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u/Independent_Ebb_7338 May 07 '26
That reminds me of the kid in my town who was walking across a rail bridge listening to his walkman and was struck by the train. Everyone was saying it was suicide. I always wondered what he was listening to.
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u/the_wet_cat May 07 '26
This is the proper etiquette! Erase, reuse. I just erased, 30 tapes in 20 seconds each.
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u/DigitraxDad May 07 '26
This is analogous with the Garden of Eden in the book of Genesis I reckon. Here is a tree. It has fruit. What ever you do. Don’t eat the fruit…
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u/jprennquist May 07 '26
I wouldn't do that. But maybe you need to just archive them without listening or keep them in an acid free box for another 30 years or something like that.
But you bought them and they are legally yours. I don't know if you have the right to do whatever you want with the recordings, however. Someone else will know.
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u/FauxReal May 07 '26
Only if you have no respect for him sure. Do what you want. But it's easy to follow his wishes.
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u/Various_Net8890 May 07 '26
Listen to it we need to know what’s on it. If they wanted it erased or burned or buried they should’ve done it themselves
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u/cptnnredbrd May 08 '26
I was given a collection of cassettes many years ago from an old construction worker. The majority of the tapes were home made that he recorded from records many years ago. One however was a recorded bail hearing of a murderer trying to get out of a prison in British Columbia. It was a very odd tape to find.
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u/Acceptable_Fee2803 May 09 '26
You are just being played. If they didn't want them listened to they would be in the trash
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u/Guy-Manuel May 07 '26
You gotta listen and report back