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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/cassette-store-day.jpg" /></p> By now, you’re familiar with <a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home">Record Store Day</a>, the annual event that celebrates independent record stores and vinyl records. Now, we can celebrate another special music format: the cassette! The first <a href="http://cassettestoreday.com/">Cassette Store Day</a> will be held tomorrow, Saturday, September 7th.
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You may (very reasonably) wonder whether such an event should exist. Are there enough stores selling tapes? Are there enough labels releasing tapes? Are there enough consumers buying tapes? As it turns out, the answer to all of those questions is <i>yes</i>. At last count, there were about 100 stores participating in the event, spanning Europe and the Americas. Participating stores include: Rough Trade (London), Resident Records (Brighton), Vox Box (Edinburgh), Love Music (Glasgow), Rundgång (Sweden), Balades Sonores (Paris), Insula Music (Denmark), Burger Records (Fullerton, CA), Landlocked Music (Bloomington, IN), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Bric-a-Brac Records & Collectibles (Chicago, IL), Skully’z Recordz (New Orleans, LA), The End of All Music (Oxford, MS), Omega Music (Dayton, OH), The Corner Record Shop (Kalamazoo, MI), Kim’s Music & Video (NYC), End Of An Ear (Austin, TX), Sonic Boom (Toronto)
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cassette-store-day]
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You may (very reasonably) wonder whether such an event should exist. Are there enough stores selling tapes? Are there enough labels releasing tapes? Are there enough consumers buying tapes? As it turns out, the answer to all of those questions is <i>yes</i>. At last count, there were about 100 stores participating in the event, spanning Europe and the Americas. Participating stores include: Rough Trade (London), Resident Records (Brighton), Vox Box (Edinburgh), Love Music (Glasgow), Rundgång (Sweden), Balades Sonores (Paris), Insula Music (Denmark), Burger Records (Fullerton, CA), Landlocked Music (Bloomington, IN), Music Millennium (Portland, OR), Bric-a-Brac Records & Collectibles (Chicago, IL), Skully’z Recordz (New Orleans, LA), The End of All Music (Oxford, MS), Omega Music (Dayton, OH), The Corner Record Shop (Kalamazoo, MI), Kim’s Music & Video (NYC), End Of An Ear (Austin, TX), Sonic Boom (Toronto)
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cassette-store-day]