From my experience most older stuff is a lot more reliable than modern things. I still remember the radio my mother had for 30 years and dropped like a dozen times because it was right in the way of the light switch. Even though that thing always hit the floor, it nevertheless worked like a charm.
Speaking of radios, wonder if my old one still works. Haven't used it in...way over a decade. It's got a cassette player and pretty decent speakers, kind of like an old-school boombox.
...Also wonder where all my cassettes flew off to. Should track those down.
I know where mine are, but it's been years since I listened to a cassette for the last time. It's one of these things where you never actively decide to stop doing it, it just... happens.
Nah, main reason I stopped listening to them (technically my mom's) was, one time when we were in Taiwan, my mom decided to see if she could get those cassettes converted to CD, or just find a CD version of those albums, since newer cars no longer had a cassette player. She was... mostly successful, and we still listen to those albums, just in CD form.
Mine were like half kids songs and half the stuff I loved as a teenager but grew bored of later on. There was a time where I would listen to both CDs and cassettes, however with the years CDs represented my current taste in music (because I acquired them more recently) and cassettes slowly lost their importance. I would still listen to them, but less often.
I'm not very active right now, because of stuff. If you don't see me around and you really need to get hold of me, you can yell at me over at one of these places?