before you can open the door?

In some ways, it is an increased efficiency - using space on the front of doors that would otherwise be "wasted". But it looks to me like not one of those cassettes is paired with the tracklisting.

I trimmed down my cassette archive in several major steps : what I am left with now is 2 big removal boxes which are mainly of rehearsal tapes / gig recordings / demos going back to 78. I've been digitising them gradually, where the contents have merited this, and sharing them with whoever else was involved.

I ended up binning the bulk of my cassette bootlegs - how many dodgy Ramones bootlegs does one man need ? - and I don't miss them.

I also have a small number of cassette compilations I've assembled down the years - "1996 : The Year In Review" and similar. I've kept them more for the tracklist (to remember what I thought marked that year) as opposed to a medium I plan to listen to much.

"I wonder what else people do with old cassette tapes? Maybe someone makes sculptures out of them..." After a quick check on Google... there is! His name is Brian Dettmer and he also does a series of artworks called 'book autopsies' which I'm going to feature in a thread.