From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihnss!knudsen
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Tape Tax and LOUSY pre-recorded tapes
Article-I.D.: ihnss.1455
Posted: Tue Feb 22 12:27:23 1983
Received: Wed Feb 23 02:37:26 1983
Reply-To: knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (Mike J Knudsen, ihnss!knudsen)

I too make many tapes of albums (mostly purchased) for my car,
as well as to put a few favorite cuts from each album together
(everything from rock faves to a tw0-hour "dinner music" casette of
soft classics).

Theoretically, you are ripping someone off if you tape an album if
the prerecorded tape is also available for purchase.  HOWEVER,
in my experience, all prerecorded commercial tapes are POOR!
Given the record album, you can use the Shack's cheapest tape,
a ceramic cartridge, and a $99 tape deck without Dolby and get
consistently better recordings than you can buy.
My own gear is a little better than the above, so...
Once in a while I'll buy an on-sale tape of Linda Ronstadt's
Greates Hits or such; it only takes about 5 minutes for my auditory
cortex (in my head) to adapt to the hiss, weird spectral imbalances,
etc.  I like mostly classical and jazz, and would NEVER pay list
price for any such tape.  Or for decent rock, for that matter.

BTW, does anyone remember the the old days when even rock albums had
some printed descriptions of the personnel, music, etc on them?
I sure miss the pre-post-literate era ... I guess most buyers of
rock alboums read English as well as the artists read music.
	mike k