cccrecpromo:

The Hipsters are at it again. As if the obsession with vinyl wasn’t annoying enough, now cassette tapes are “all the rage”…again? This sounds like something Urban Outfitters had something to do with. I am so sick of the hipsters telling me what is unconventionally “cool” and changing the…

This was Blogged by someone in my Record Promotion class.  I found the gratuitous use of ”Hipster” hilarious.  So what if people want to buy something on cassette, it is cheaper for small artists to produce than vinyl, and Grace stop trying to be clever by saying your parents had vinyl so you have been cool for forever, all our parents have vinyl.  That is all there was.  The fact of the matter is that some artists want to have a physical product, something people will remember.  You can’t even give out CDs anymore.  People notice tapes. Where do you think the hip hop mix-tape genre came from?

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