Check your old box of cassette tapes. Some tapes cost a few dollars in the 1980s, but are now worth a lot of cash. Here are some of the most valuable ones.

LIKE DEBBIE GIBSON, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

Vanessa Moreno of ooomydesign created a tribute to the Eighties with her series of Cassette Tape Lamps. She took advantage of the cassette's structural properties, simply tying the tapes firmly ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. They're usually sitting in a shoe box under the bed next to old baseball cards and that one letter from an ex you meant to get rid of. Dozens ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Steve Stepp knew audiotapes were going to come back before you did, and not just ...

Green Day is releasing a new box set. The box set includes all of the band's studio albums and greatest hits releases, through Revolution Radio … in cassette format. The release also comes with a ...

The last VCR was manufactured in 2016. That means there are still VCRs out there ready to take care of all your video cassette needs. But there is a finite number out there. The amount of VCRs will ...

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