bought a cheap and probably not very good but hopefully passable cassette player, and a few cassettes. i've been a little fascinated by them as long as i can remember, but by the time i was born the cd was in its prime and my mom had an mp3 player, so i've never had cause to use them. i just want to mess around with one and see if i like it, since phone manufacturers are seemingly going out of their way to make listening to music on their devices completely fucking miserable anyway
i wanted to get a proper 80s walkman but i had to reel that impulse back after finding that they're at least $100 on ebay for a broken one and could go upwards of $700 for a working original model (no thanks to guardians of the fucking galaxy! 💢)