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Cassette tapes were the first great advancement in portable recording and playback. You can draw a direct line between them and the music apps on every smartphone today.
It’s not just old cassettes that are selling: the current crop of pop musicians are shifting their music on tapes, too.
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Cassette tapes are in again – and this time, it’s smaller artists who look likely to gain.
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Vinyl records are set to become the largest source of revenue from physical music sales.
Bootlegs - across formats - have experienced buoyancy within the music marketplace for the last 40 years or so.
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Bootlegs will continue to be manufactured.
The future of the bootleg might just reinvent the official release.