A multi-enthusiast household

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo) 02/09/2018 at 12:34 • Filed to: None

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My son got his license yesterday, and is already asking me about the MSF course and a motorcycle license. He has no idea how stressed his mom was waiting for him to drive himself home from band practice. Is it awful that I am not nearly as stressed as she is about him driving?

I offered to put a nice, touchscreen head unit in the Sport Trac for him, and he looked at me like I had offered to cut off one of his limbs. He wants the stock unit (AM/FM, cassette, CD) to remain, even though it doesn’t work all that well. He is enthralled with cassette tapes, and cannot understand my contempt for them. Believe me, kid, if you had actually lived through that shitty format they wouldn’t seem so cool. So since I stayed home sick, I dug some old tapes out for him

These two may contain recordings of the original Immoral Minority, a punk/thrash band that I fronted around 1995-1996 when I was in law school. We were truly terrible, but did manage to play a handful of gigs. There is a VHS tape somewhere of a show at the Randolph Teen Center that must never see the light of day.

This one is a Metallica tape given to me by a young man I met in Doboj, BiH while working as an elections monitor in 1997. I gave him a Megadeth tour shirt I had with me. I spent quite a bit of my free time with him and his friends, drinking wine and singing songs together.

I still love vinyl, but cassettes are horseshit. I should drag out the box of CDs

I don’t think he can afford the stock 8 Track for the T Bird.

CalzoneGolem > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:04

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I had this buddy in college who’s parents were loaded. One time a bunch of us went and stayed in their condo on a ski mountain. The thing that impressed my most was they had a 6 cassette changer stereo.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:05

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There are humans right now who are alive thanks to Fate not allowing me to kill them while behind the wheel at a young age. I blanch as I think of the risks I took.

What gets me is the high number of children with PROVISIONAL driver licenses who flout the provisions by driving around with other youths in the car with them. Why doesn’t the CHP make that a priority?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:06

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Congrats to him! Get him a scooter as well! :D

Why not something like this for his Tbird? https://www.retromanufacturing.com/

MonkeePuzzle > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:12

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all drivers should take a motorcycle course. It really helps you understand the motorcyclist’s plight, even if you have no intent to ever ride

vondon302 > CalzoneGolem 02/09/2018 at 13:19

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I lived thru that era and had no idea these even existed.

Wacko > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:23

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At the end with the right equipment cassettes were not that bad.

with my stereo i was able to skip songs on a cassette, so did my JVC head unit in my car. So i would make mix tapes on cassettes, but had the 12 disk changer in my car.

PS I still have this stereo at home.

I was so proud when i saw my stereo in a nicolas cage movie

note I no long have any cassette tapes.

punkgoose17 > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 13:26

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Cassettes are awful. The best things were car CD players that rarely skipped. I got some cassettes from the Goodwill a few years ago. I found some gems for a buck a piece (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Louie Armstrong), but some were in the sun too long and some were crinkled.

On another note you can get new stuff on cassette again because kids are weird

Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1 Cassette

https://disneymusic.shop.musictoday.com/product/XVCS01/guardians-of-the-galaxy-awesome-mix-vol-1-cassette?cp=81712_82045&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google-shopping&src=GPPC_PA_XVCS01&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhq_OyLmZ2QIVSGSGCh3XyQGbEAQYAiABEgJ0hfD_BwE

Cousin Boneless: Trash Masquerade

https://cousinboneless.bandcamp.com/album/trash-masquerade

CalzoneGolem > vondon302 02/09/2018 at 13:27

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I’ve only seen the one in person.

Check this design out!

vondon302 > CalzoneGolem 02/09/2018 at 13:38

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Omg that must of cost a small fortune new.

Neat.

CalzoneGolem > vondon302 02/09/2018 at 13:40

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I like how it looks a lot like a record player. They were like, “What are we going to do with all this tooling?”

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > punkgoose17 02/09/2018 at 13:41

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The Guardians of the Galaxy tape makes sense because the prop in the movie was a tape. I don’t understand the rest of them though.

CaptDale - is secretly British > ImmoralMinority 02/09/2018 at 14:05

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... I love cassettes!

punkgoose17 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/09/2018 at 14:16

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Asked a bunch of folk punk kids why they like cassette tapes. The best answer I got was, “my car only has a cassette player.”

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > punkgoose17 02/09/2018 at 14:17

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My old car also only had a cassette player but I solved that by buying one of those $5 aux adapters.

punkgoose17 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 02/09/2018 at 14:37

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That is what made my last car with a cassette player better than my wife’s car that only has a cd player.