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Tom said, “cassette tapes to me are like fossils, preserving bits and pieces of history—my history—30 minutes at a time.”
The Murphy brothers have even joked about recording their wills, even though their families would have to track down a cassette player to listen to them.
“I just have this image in my head of them finally finding one, hitting play and realizing they forgot that these things also run on batteries,” quipped Tom.
Tom hopes that one day he can leave his collection with someone who will appreciate them as much as he has. “There may come a day when digital music disappears, but tapes are forever,” he said. “They’ll be here long after we’re gone.”
Murphy said recording a tape is like writing a letter and being a DJ.
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