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| | Now it's the audio cassette's turn to die - Engadget |
 | | Patented by Philips in the 1960s, cassettes represented 54% of music sales by the mid-1980s, when the Walkman was all the rage and the music industry complained that home taping was "killing music" (yeah, same old, same old). |
 | | However, the cassette tape — which, given its lousy sound quality, lack of random access and proclivity for getting tangled and torn, we're not going to miss — still has a lifeline, in the form of audiobooks, where it represents a third of all sales. |
 | | tapes should have been dead a long time ago, yes they were cool in the 80s and such, but now cds are WAY easier to mix and are way cheaper, oh wait the cd is obsolete too. |
| www.engadget.com /2005/06/17/now-its-the-audio-cassettes-turn-to-die (1584 words) |
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