Audio Cassettes Make A Comeback

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oi-Staff

Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 16:47

Audio cassettes are returning to the shelves, thanks to the elderly listeners. Elders have rejected the latest formats of CDs and digital downloads.

To meet the growing demand from more senior music fans, the record companies are now releasing music on tape again.

Ian Brown, from Island Records, placed an order of thousands copies of the album 'Words For You' when its 4,000 copies on cassette vanished within weeks of hitting the shelf.

"Many of our customers are over 85 and a lot won't even have upgraded to CDs, let alone mp3s. So we thought we would give it a go and made 4,000 copies on cassettes. All of them were sold out in weeks of going on sale last month," said sources from the record company.

There are a lot of elderly people and they are the ones who have regular pensions. They are not effected by job losses and economic recessions, so they spend openly.