Whilst I grouse re: matters Pitchfork, the most annoying music-meme going is the preponderance of acts that offer up their giveaway MP3's and the very next sentence is: "...will be featured on their upcoming cassette-only release 'Way of the Nightlamb' [or whatever]."
The fetishization of vinyl records has obvs reached its hipster zenith, when USB-equipped turntables are now available at your local Circle K. So the kids, born in the 80's, naturally want to objectify some radically obstuse obsolete technology of their own. Fair enough! Except: cassettes suck, inherently. The need to rewind, the potential for damage, the drop-out phenomenon...just all sorts of drawbacks. Plus, since "they" have stopped making cassette tape, pretty much, but for the supplying of idiot kids still trying to make their own Bee Thousand on weekends at their step-dad's, the cassette micro-trend lends itself to a wilful shitness by its very nature, since most of the crap going on the newly-manufactured-but-unnecessary tape isn't worth hearing in the end, anyway.
Why I'm almost 60 years old and know anything about this fad is the pathetic part, yes.
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