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The fruitman came to the market today.

beatbox - 2008-02-24 09:34

OK, so after walking around the flomarkt (fleamarket) today and spotting only a GF800 that I passed up, (incidentally, I bumped into ghettoblaster68 at the market who also told me that space was getting tight at his place too!) I headed on home. On the way past the stalls I noticed a row of tapes. Well, I'm always interested in tapes, so I took a look and what did I find but the most colourful selection of blank tapes I hae seen for a long time. The seller had quite a few pieces of each design but I wasn't gonna be geedy and so I took one of each of the ones I like (there were loads more I didn't get). Anyway, though not boomboxes, I believe these are intrinsically linked to our radios and love thereof, especially since I also found a great AIWA demonstration cassette, with 3 Beatles tracks on one side and blank on the other which one would normally get when buying audio equipment such as a boombox!!

The perfect buddy to my TPR950e. Big Grin

P.S. I also found a brand new copy of 'Soundpieces: Da antidote' by the Lootpack for 12 euros, which is rare as hens teeth, and fetches at least 3 times what I paid for it normally from the record stores around here IF they have it. All in all a great day!

Some fruity pics -







joe.cool - 2008-02-24 09:42

Congratulations on your cool tape find beatbox...quite a colourful selection. The BASF C-120 in the first pic, bottom left corner...does it make any reference to which olympics is commemerated? Thanks for sharing! Smile

beatbox - 2008-02-24 09:47

quote:
Originally posted by Joe Cool:
Congratulations on your cool tape find beatbox...quite a colourful selection. The BASF C-120 in the first pic, bottom left corner...does it make any reference to which olympics is commemerated? Thanks for sharing! Smile


Unfortunately no info on it whatsoever. However, I just did a search and a green one is on the bay right now with 1972 in the title!

oldskool69 - 2008-02-24 10:09

Wow! Nice rare finds! Especially 120 minute length cassettes. Big Grin

fatdog - 2008-02-24 12:09

I like the Star Wars tape! Is that a bootleg soundtrack?

masterblaster84 - 2008-02-24 12:43

Very cool, that is a great tape display.
Congrats on your new cassettes. Cool

beatbox - 2008-02-24 13:11

Thanks for the comments folks!

quote:
Originally posted by Fatdog:
I like the Star Wars tape! Is that a bootleg soundtrack?


Its certainly not a licensed product. The first side is the London Philarmonic Orchestra playing 5 of the main Star Wars tracks (but no bar song sadly), and the second side is Theme from 2001, plus some other lesser known 'space' tracks.

quote:
Very cool, that is a great tape display.
Congrats on your new cassettes. Cool


Yeah, the selle asked me if I was gonna make some mix tapes with all of them, and I told him that I'm actually a designer and just really like the old school designs on them. I'm gonna build a picture frame that fix perfectly around 20 of the tapes. Next week I'm gonna go back for more!

jaredscottfla - 2008-02-24 16:10

very Cool finds!

bredgeo - 2008-02-24 21:48

NICE!!!

ako - 2008-02-25 20:05

wow! beautiful. im jealous!