This is literally the 80s version of holding up your phone to record a video of a music concert.
No, not really.
Because many of those videos won’t be replayed over and over again. It’s like recording fireworks. Almost pointless. You may as well just enjoy the concert (edit: without videotaping it.)
The tape recording, though, you bet it was enjoyed countless of times!
And shared! And mixed.
The best way of showing you liked someone back then was by giving a mix tape.
I guess later the same could have been said for CDs but they felt like office goods…
Lol office goods! :)
They do feel like that now. But back in the day, I thought it was the apogee of technology, so handling them (buying them, playing, sharing) was really cool.
But then, I was 14.
The difference is in Poland in the 80s it was hard and expensive to buy music so it might be the only option for them to get it.
Yeah, and you can tell just by the look on his face that this is serious business. He’s just got to hope nothing going wrong while it’s recording. I’d be so nervous about something breaking in the machine!
The condenser mic and magnetic media probably produced a better recording than a cell phone mic/digital audio.
Shia LaBeouf is in the background making his own recording as well.
He looks really serious about it.
Couldn’t they just buy the tape? I’m sure the audio quality is gonna be shit tier recording like that.
In communist Poland some things you could only hear and record live, because that was harder for censors to stop. Even then there were censors backstage crossing out forbidden lyrics from the sets. However they would often get ignored as an act of defiance, especially at punk rock concerts.
But there was no way to officialy distribute these kinds of materials and doing so could land you in jail.
So unless you had some kind of underground source, your best bet would be to go to a concert and record it.
Just in case you’ve never heard of bootleg recordings:
Tommy Lee Jones before he got big.
Stealthy!
