Heard approximately 25 years ago in a record store:
A customer was going to buy some music for his kids and attempted to steer them toward the lower price option.
"So, which would you rather have?" he asked them. "The CD, or the cassette, which you can listen to in the car?"
His young daughter said, "The CD," so the CD it was.
At a different record store when I was in college, cassettes were kept in locked cabinets. Customers had to ask the clerk to unlock the cabinets whenever they wanted to buy a tape.
It might sound odd today, but cassettes were still a hot commodity in the early '90s--for their portability, cost (in some instances), and easier-to-store advantages.
