Twice in recent days, I've had the unpleasant experience of realizing that two cassettes are in precarious condition. As the tape in one of them started wobbling recently, I thought, "Why is this happening? This is a type IV metal bias cassette, which was the highest quality cassette one could buy--in 1991, just a mere 35 years ago." Then, on a different tape recorder, it took forever to rewind a different cassette just so I could hear one song. Eventually, I had to rewind the cogs by hand to get back to the song's intro. I thought in jest, "Why is this tape so sluggish in its rewinding? This album was just released on cassette in 1993. Granted, that was 33 years ago, but it's more recent than 1991. Oh, well. It'll take about three days to rewind the tape if I ever want to hear this song again, but the sound quality has held up, at least."
Not surprisingly, no one has accused me of recency bias lately.
