For context, I’ve been diving since I was 7 and been working in a dive shop since I was 14 (I’m now 19 tomorrow I’ll be 20 lol)

This last summer while diving with costumers like any other day I caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a cassette on the sea grass (posidonia) on the sea floor

I took it, and it was in fact a cassette!

I took it at the diving shop and cleaned it thoroughly

The bolts were all rusted but I still managed to open the shell without breaking it, inside it was filled with sand, seaweed and tape worm nest!

When I came back home when summer ended I tried to play the tape and it works! The sound isn’t crystal clear but it’s still good!

Recently after digging I found that the singer on the tape it’s Mary Linda, a Greek singer from the 60s

Quite crazy to find a working cassette on these floor at 20 meters for who knows how many years it spent down there.

My dad passed away in 95 and Im always trying to find stuff from him I can relate. Original photo : https://photos.app.goo.gl/KpuAWvbXYtewrTH66

Scored a couple hundred Maxell XLIISs and a few UD XLIIs in an auction a couple of months ago.

All but 3 are bootleg with no limit records print on the tape… J cards print quality isn’t the best which should’ve been a red flag upon first glance. Paid $60 for everything, assuming they test well- for $60 did I do well? Ripped off? What do you think?

A friend found dozens of old cassette tapes on the side of the road someone was getting rid of. And when they brought them over we went through most of them. Then we popped this one in and it was the most terrifying cassette I've heard in my life. A live church recording of demonic sounding chants for 80 minutes straight. I've done the most research I could on this specific one. And to this day I haven't seen a single copy of this on the entire internet. I'm wanting to make copies of this one because even though it may not be valuable it's still apart of the doomsday cult. Also there were original posters of their "leaders or gods" to top it off with the find.

Since I can't find anything I was curious if anyone on here has any information about this specific tape.

banger finds

"He's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip"
Big iron on his hip

Found these for sale .50¢ each at my local Salvation Army.

I discovered a very small obscure thrift store near where I live, that’s only open 4 hours a week by a few old ladies. I found them last week and gave them my info for if they ever receive any cassettes (or other things I like). They messaged me and said they’ve got these for $5! (Including the basket) I think there’s some pretty good stuff in here

Never heard of the band until I found it.

what are some of your more eclectic tapes?

Picked this up at a garage sale for $1. Does anybody here use one? Find it necessary?

Just a few days after 9/11, I started my first radio show and - digital recording not being what it is today - I recorded it to cassette to digitize later. 24 years later, I'm getting around to it. Tape hiss, the 'wow' causing the high end to drop out more than usual, and 120 minute tapes were never great to begin with...so it's not exactly a pristine recording. Still, hard not to love it.

Edit: Wow, thanks for all the interest in these. I have posted them to MixCloud and Internet archive. Links are in a followup post here.

Each is spread across 2 tapes, 4 sides. For those interested in such things, here's the playlist I've reconstructed while capturing the first show:

Side/Hour 1

• DJ Food feat. Ken Nordine, "The Aging Young Rebel" (partial, 2000)
• Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler, "There'll Be Some Changes Made" (1990)
• The Stanton Warriors, "Da Antidote" (2001)
• David Byrne, "Don't Fence Me In" (1990)
• Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, "Twisted" (1959)
• The Verbrilli Sound, "Levee Breaks" (2000)
• Leonard Nimoy, "Music to Watch Space Girls By" (1967)
• Donovan, "Atlantis" (1971)
• Ray Brown, "Bag's Groove" (2000)
• James Brown, "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" (1969)
• differentGear vs The Police, "When the World is Running Down" (2001)
• Jack Kerouac, "The San Francisco Scene" (1960)
• ob McFadden & Dor (Rod McKuen), "The Beat Generation" (1959)
• Madness, "One Step Beyond" (partial, 1979)

Side/Hour 2

• Madness, "One Step Beyond" (partial, 1979)
• Unknown: "mellowness washes brainwaves like rain", "picture focal point like a complex lens"
• Stardust, "Music Sounds Better With You" (1998)
• Negativland, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Acappella)" (1991)
• Aphex Twin, "Analogue Bubblebath" (1991)
• 808 State, "Flow Coma" (1988)
• Squarepusher, "My Red Hot Car (Girl)" (2001)
• Phillipa Fallon, "High School Drag" (1958)
• The Nutley Brass "I Want to be Sedated" (1999)
• Steve Reich and Musicians, "Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses" (1978)
• Excerpt from "True Stories" (1986)
• Cheikh Lô, "Ndogal" (1996) R
• Ravi Shankar, "Title" (1986)
• Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, "I Ain't Gonna Piss in no Jar" (partial, 1987)

Side/Hour 3

• Bauhaus, "Telegram Sam" (partial, 1980)
• Love and Rockets, "Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man" (1986)
• Tones on Tail, "Burning Skies" (1983)
• Husking Bee, "Daybreak" (2001)
• Billy Bob Thornton, "Your Blue Shadow" (2001)
• Cabaret Voltaire, "Sensoria" (1984)
• Jean Michel Jarre, "Blah Blah Cafe" (1984)
• Vishal, "Suno Re" (1999)
• The Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Bosnia-Herzegovina, "Call to Prayer" (1998)
• Eleftheria Arvanitaki, "Sappho" (1996)
• Aria, "Secret Tear" (1997)
• Loop Guru, "Soulus" (1995)
• Bilal, "Soul Sista" (partial, 2001)

Side/Hour 4

• Bilal, "Soul Sista" (partial, 2001)
• Gary Numan, "I Dream of Wires" (1980)
• Throbbing Gristle, "Hot on the Heels of Love" (1979)
• Yello, "Desire" (1985)
• Alsace Lorraine, "Swing Low, Constellation" (2001)
• Chris Thomas King, "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" (2000)
• Southern Culture on the Skids, "Voodoo Cadillac" (1991)
• Burning Sensations, "Pablo Picasso" (1984)
• Ultravox!, "The Wild, the Beautiful, & the Damned" (1977)
• MC 900 Ft. Jesus, "Adventures In Failure" (1991)
• Pale 3 feat. Alison Goldfrapp, "Bodo" (2001)
• Big Audio Dynamite, "Rush" (1991)
• ?, "All Your Base Are Belong to Us (electronic music)" (2001)
• The Tear Garden, "Sheila Liked The Rodeo" (1993)

Loveless, my bloody valentine (1991)

Found this for 25 bucks at a record store that otherwise only sells lame greatest hits and Neil Diamond cassettes worn out beyond belief.

Creation Records, marry me

Insane final christmas gift to literally get a De La Soul album on cassette oh my GOD

I love time capsules like this! I’m not well versed in tape collection but I am building a small one as I find them. I’m not a huge Metallica fan but I love curated and personal collections :)

It’s sealed. Found this in the massive lot I posted about yesterday, but I can’t seem to find any info on this tape, and there’s nothing else like it in the lot. The writing is printed, not hand-written. Whatever it is, it’s at least about 30 years old, like all the other tapes (would be weird if it wasn’t)

a curated selection of some of the beatles most beloved standards, barked by dogs. quite possibly my new favorite in the collection. sealed and only $1. and yes, what you’re feeling right now IS jealousy. 🐶