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Article: Tale of cassette tape winds down
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- Central Penn Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 7, 2007
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Aged cardboard containers inside the display case near the cash register at Mr. Mike's Record Store hold what remains of Michael Albert's cassette-tape inventory.
It has been at least three months since one has been sold.
The Harrisburg music shop has 100 cassettes left for sale, Albert said. The cassettes represent less than 1 percent of the store's inventory, he said.
"I'll keep them until they're gone, or until I pitch them," Albert said.
Music cassette tapes may not be long for this world, depending on who you ask. Albert gives the medium a couple more years to live, outside of flea markets. He said he sells between 10 and 20 tapes a year.
"(New) cars don't have cassette decks ...