Usually I got the cassette if I wanted to listen to the music in the car or if the CD was sold out. CD was just starting to gain in popularity so it was a special treat if you had a CD player in the car. My family had a tape player until I was in about tenth or eleventh grade.
At night before I went to bed I always listen to Top 9 at 9 on 97.5 as I mentioned in my BSB blog. I would press record when a song would start that I knew I liked and wanted to listen to later. I am old enough to say that downloading music was not really an option for me until I was probably 14 or 15. All of my music I actually had to physically go out to buy or record off of the radio. I never made many mix tapes as a child, though I think this is a hobby I would have liked very much. However, I was the kid that held a tape recorder up to the radio or CD player to get songs that I wanted because I was nowhere near my CD player that actually had a recording button.
While I am on my rant I should mention that I am a big fan of VHS. I still have a VCR/DVD recorder in my possession and I use it frequently. I rescued most of my kids movies from my dad's yard sale box before I moved and now watch them on a regular basis. Back in the day, I used to record all of my TV shows on VHS and watch them over and over again. I did this until maybe 2005. I have several episodes of Dawson's Creek, the OC, and One Tree Hill still on VHS somewhere. Probably quite a few disney channel movies as well. Now you can purchase VHS versions of your favorite movies for 50 cents or so on Amazon. I find that to be an awesome perk of owning a VCR. I am sad to say that most of the younger generations will not even know what a VCR is or a VHS for that matter.
Let's take a moment of silence to remember the greatness that was .. tape.
Anyway, this is just me going on about how I miss the option to just record music the old fashioned way. Before we had cell phones or ipods that did it for us.
-Brianna