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  2. A truly unique cassette from my days (well, 10 years actually) at the PolyGram music cassette plant



  3. Some of those cassettes have Camden market written all over them?
    i use to go there back in the 90s and pick up bootlegs.
  4. All from various suitcases and back alleys in Cork and Dublin, but I imagine the idea was the same. The sound awful now, but back then they were gold.

    @BigGiRL Looks great; I'm intrigued as to why it's unique. Did you swap the plastic for white?
  5. Oh...memories...i used to go there too
    I bought a bootleg of a Concert by SugarCubes
    What a band...
    And around London there were musicians praying you to listen to their demotapes...anyone had this Experience?
  6. It's unique because there is only one

    There is white print on a white shell - clearly a misprint... if it wasn't made on purpose .
  7. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]
    It's unique because there is only one

    There is white print on a white shell - clearly a misprint... if it wasn't made on purpose .
    Yeah, mine was dark seethrough shell with white print... so maybe one (or a few) were made on wrong shell
  8. Originally posted by Alvin:[..]
    Yeah, mine was dark seethrough shell with white print... so maybe one (or a few) were made on wrong shell

    Eh no, probably not... Like I said: I worked at the PolyGram Cassette factory.
    I manufactured this one myself (and took it legally with me!).

    I placed a white (empty) shell in the machine that winds the pre-recorded audio tape (the "pancakes") in: the TapeMatic 2002 (see picture).

    Then I kept the then still unprinted cassette in my pocket and waited for an opportunity to get the print on (APEX print).

    That's the story...


    in this promo pic you see red shells, but usually they were transparent.
    But sometimes there were colors - or black, or white cassettes.

    #thisishowwedidit
  9. Originally posted by BigGiRL:[..]

    Eh no, probably not... Like I said: I worked at the PolyGram Cassette factory.
    I manufactured this one myself (and took it legally with me!).

    I placed a white (empty) shell in the machine that winds the pre-recorded audio tape (the "pancakes") in: the TapeMatic 2002 (see picture).

    Then I kept the then still unprinted cassette in my pocket and waited for an opportunity to get the print on (APEX print).

    That's the story...

    [image]
    in this promo pic you see red shells, but usually they were transparent.
    But sometimes there were colors - or black, or white cassettes.

    #thisishowwedidit
    okay... cheating...
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