I was browsing
UrbanDaddy.com when I uncovered a
truly wonderful product, embodying a few of my favorite things—nostalgia, music, quirkiness, ties. You're probably wondering... What miraculous feat of human innovation could incorporate all of these disparate qualities? I'll tell you:
the cassette tape tie.
Sonic Fabric is selling neckties made out of the authentic and fantastic magnetic tape found in the music conveyors of our youth. They go for a somewhat steep $90–$140, available in skinny, medium, or standard; black, gray, or dark brown. But, can you really put a price on something to remind you of mmmbopping to Hanson on the way home from a grade-school soccer game? I think not.
And, just when you think it can't get any better, check this out from the UrbanDaddy article:
While ordinarily you can't choose your tapes of choice, we have it on good authority that if you use your inside voice and pay a handsome fee, you can have the tie made from whatever tapes you want.
Talk about a conversation piece. Then again, I suppose you could just purchase one of their regular models, and then
tell people you're walking around with a business-casual sampling of, I don't know, Aqua. (That was my first cassette tape.)
These ties are awesome—would you pay $90+ for one? What was your first cassette?
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Comments (10)
That is until people started going back to releasing cassette tapes again these days.
My Hanson album was on a cd.
That's...quite expensive. Haha.
That's pretty expensive. It'd have to be for a really good friend that really wants it.
My first tape was Rage Against the Machine.
I would not pay $90+ for one. :P Then again, I'm also not very impressed with such a product, anyway. For one thing, I don't think a tie made out of magnetic stuff is probably going to be very good for specific things that you have such as digital watches, credit cards, motel/hotel room key cards, or cell phones if they get anywhere near the tie unless it is de-magnetized. Moving these objects too close to anything that is magnetized is a very good way to ruin them.
But, for another thing, I don't care if its made out of the tapes or not. :p Whether I'm staring at the tapes or wearing the innards of the tapes, I'm still able to listen to them again.
But, that's just me. :p
$90 kiss my ass! And it doesn't even LOOK like it was made from it. Wouldn't THAT be the selling point. Like cassette wallets or cassette ipod cases?
I'd rather rip a few apart and melt them with a heat gun into a long rectangle and stitch and sew my own until it looked like a tie... then rock that.
My first cassettes were Michael Jackson's Bad and Boyz II Men's Motown Philly.
just get a blender... and a pair of goggles...
Um, I thought somebody was going to crochet with the strung-out tape.....Shelby Stone.....Cherry Picking Time......A1AdultEbooks.com
Lol, why would I pay 90 dollars for a tie made out of something that I can get for 50 cents at a record store?
My first tape was Sublime xD. I can't remember which one. Sublime and Cake.