cassette tapes

Yo anyone sample off of cassette tapes? i've started doing it cuz it's cheaper than vinyl and i don't have a turntable.

the sound quality is usually surprisingly good, there's some noise but it's not distracting. sometimes the tapes jitter a bit and pan weirdly which can be a cool, unexpected effect. if the little felt pad under the tape is loose the music sometimes sounds dull, low-pass-filtered out of nowhere, which can also be kind of cool.

anyway the main problem i've come across is availability of good tapes... not that much great music was ever even released on cassette, and on top of that even thrift stores are dumping their tapes cuz no one wants them. i've found a couple great tapes but mostly crap. some are mislabeled too, they'll just have like some home recording of a guy speaking chinese for an hour

but yeah anyone dig through tapes?

I've been picking some tapes up here and there..mostly from goodwill..

Though I like the sound of tapes, it's kinda tedious too work with em.. All the rewinding and shit. It's so much quicker and more fluent to judt pick up the needle or pull the record back.. So yeah.. Most of the time I can't be botherd

i made my first mixes on tapes.
i have a big bag full of tapes. you can find all kinds of prog and jazz on tape.
you can also record onto tape and sample back off to get that sound if that's what you like.