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Lot 397: A Large Collection of Rock, Indie, and Blues Audio Cassette Tapes
An extensive assortment of audio cassette tapes, primarily featuring indie, rock, blues, and alternative music from the 1970s to the 1990s. The collection comprises approximately 80 to 100 tapes, including original commercial releases and home-recorded tapes on high-quality blank media.
Prominent commercial titles include Radiohead (The Bends, Parlophone), Portishead (self-titled, Go! Beat), Cocteau Twins (Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas, 4AD/Virgin), Talking Heads (Fear of Music, Sire), The Police (Outlandos d’Amour, A&M), The Sundays (Blind, Rough Trade), and The Pogues (Rum Sodomy & The Lash, Stiff Records). Classic rock is represented by multiple titles from Bruce Springsteen (Tunnel of Love, Born to Run, Live 1975-85), Neil Young (Ragged Glory, Unplugged), Television (Marquee Moon), and The Animals. The collection also features a series of Blues Masters tapes including Willie Dixon, Otis Rush, and Charley Patton.
Labels present include EMI, CBS, A&M, and budget reissue labels such as Fame and Music for Pleasure (MFP). A significant portion of the lot consists of home-recorded tapes on TDK (D90, AD90, SA90) and Maxell (XLII, XLII-S) media, featuring handwritten J-cards for artists including The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, and Foo Fighters. The collection is housed in two distressed cardboard boxes.
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