Of course when I was 19 or so I had a “wait, what?” moment and bought up every Beatles album I could get my paws on (which is of course all of them, not really sure why I felt the need to be so dramatic there?) but by then everything was all on compact disc and the years of me actively looking for an album via cassette were long gone.
For people of my own generation, if you were lucky you had older siblings that were fans and could pass the vinyl down to you or you’d buy the contact discs yourself, there was no real in-between era with the cassette versions. I assume that somewhere out there are millions of these cassette tapes, official releases of Beatles albums, but I literally have never seen one. Not out & about, not in a used record store, not in any of my friends music collections, nada. Every music lover I know has every Beatles album on vinyl, as I do, and if you’re my age your journey included a romp through the curiously antiseptic compact disc era without ever coming into contact with the cassette versions. And to be clear - I'm not just saying I've never owned or listened to a Beatles album on cassette, I think it's true that I have literally never even seen none in real life. 🤔🤷♂️
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