When I started trading music, and Pearl Jam in particular, it was on cassette tapes. I still have them and I was looking at them the other day. All the various writing, differing shows and years, the Alive single that has never been opened. And I wondered in this time of technology how many people still have their cassettes? Hell, I even still have a Jackson 5 eight track. lol ...
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I still have my tape of Yield--which I bought so I could listen to it on the way home to listen to my CD (which was an 8 minute drive or so. I didn't even make it through no way). that was the only PJ tape I ever owned.
I still have tapes of a few old bootlegs somewhere, but i think all the material on them has made it onto cd at some point or another.
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I've managed to hang on to all of my PJ bootlegs on cassette. I think I have about 2 shoe boxes full in my closet. Every now and then I'll break one of them out for shits & giggles (Chicago '98 is my favorite).
Actually the other day I was cleaning out my office area at home and found a tape of the PJ bootleg called No Fuckin' Messiah. I think this was the very first PJ boot I ever owned. Ahhhh, the memories
COME ON PEOPLE!!!
the waiting has driven me mad..
how can you talk about your cassettes!!????
I WANT THE NEW ALBUM AND I WANT THEM IN GREECE IMMEDIATELY!
I still have Ten and Vs (one of the cool 5 against 1 cassettes too) on tape. Like others, I have various radio shows (as recent as jones beach 2000) on tape laying around somewhere too.
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I probably have 25-40 bootlegs on cassette. I still don't have them all replaced on CD and I still don't have a CD player at my desk at work, so when the iPod needs a break, the cassettes still see the light of day when I need to rock the cubical
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never had a pj cassette.
my brother had ten, vs., and vitalogy, but he threw them away years ago.
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stip wrote:
I still have my tape of Yield--which I bought so I could listen to it on the way home to listen to my CD (which was an 8 minute drive or so. I didn't even make it through no way). that was the only PJ tape I ever owned.
Simple as it may be, that's one of the great PJ stories I've ever heard.
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stip wrote:
I still have my tape of Yield--which I bought so I could listen to it on the way home to listen to my CD (which was an 8 minute drive or so. I didn't even make it through no way). that was the only PJ tape I ever owned.
I love this story. Might be pretty frightening to a non-PJ fan, but I repsect this type of dedication very much.
On a related note, I've already blocked off 9 AM - 11 AM on May 2nd on my online work calendar so that there are no meetings scheduled for me while I go get the CD and give it at least one listen.
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This thread is making me nostalgic...
Don't have my tapes anymore, but I had Ten, Vs. and Vitalogy on cassette before I got a CD player.
The first bootleg I ever owned was "The Five Musketeers". Still have it...I bought the CD for $25 before I even owned a CD player. I had the CD for at least a couple weeks before I even listened to it.
I remember the weekend of the Atlanta concert I was at my grandmother's house who lived out in the boondocks. I was up in the attic listening to the show with almost NO reception. This was the show that made me a lifer, and I'm sure many others.
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mathboy23 wrote:
stip wrote:
I still have my tape of Yield--which I bought so I could listen to it on the way home to listen to my CD (which was an 8 minute drive or so. I didn't even make it through no way). that was the only PJ tape I ever owned.
I love this story. Might be pretty frightening to a non-PJ fan, but I repsect this type of dedication very much.
On a related note, I've already blocked off 9 AM - 11 AM on May 2nd on my online work calendar so that there are no meetings scheduled for me while I go get the CD and give it at least one listen.
Me too.
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