what would you do if the internet was GONE?

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I remember when I was a kid the only way I could get recorded music was to listen to the top 40 countdown with my finger poised above the record button of my trusty Sanyo cassette recorder, ready to pounce at the start of each song. The top 40 went until about 11 o'clock at night and if you fell asleep you were screwed because the tape recorder didn't even have an auto shut off. In the morning you would wake to a dead set of batteries and 20 minutes of songs with snoring in the background. The other drawback was sometimes the announcer didn't know when to stop talking so you'd get some songs that started with an accompaniment of, "...and we're hoping you'll join us at 11 o'clock for a repeat broadcast of the first day international between the West Indies and Pakistan. Meanwhile, coming into the charts at number 40, here's the latest offering from Meatloaf....Ahhh, I knew him when he was a sausage roll..."

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"...and I knew him when he was a sausage roll..."
ah, those were the days, eh? cassette tape was NEW then! were it not for that marvelously compact invention, you'd be having to schlep a bulky 40 pound reel tape machine in front of the radio to record your faves.

Back when I was a kid in the 70's. I would record songs off the radio the way you did. except, I would hold the cassette recorder up to the radio and record the song "acoustically" off the radio, using the build-in microphone on the recorder, instead of connecting it directly to the radio. I was using a cheap dictation portable cassette recorder and a clock/radio to do my recording with, and it sounded like $h!t. but I didn't know any better back then, and I thought it was the greatest thing out there.