Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.

The revival technically began in 2006, when hipsters were doing quirky hipster things like issuing tapes on the indie music scene. This latest wave is an even bigger boom for the cassette industry.

Salt Lake City resident Joe Maloy has been a fan of cassette tapes for almost 10 years. In 2015, he bought a Jeep from his uncle. “The CD player didn’t work but it had a tape deck, and I was ...

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z's obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones and Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch ...

Find your Walkman. Thanks to Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, along with TV shows like "Stranger Things," sales of cassette tapes are way up.

Now it’s the humble cassette tape’s turn. In 2020, cassette tapes sales were up 33%, according to Discogs. And sales are up at music stores around Colorado Springs.

LARS GOTRICH, BYLINE: Right beside me, I have tapes, tapes, tapes, tapes. MARTIN: That's Lars Gotrich of NPR Music. He's one of those young-old people who's a fan of cassette tapes.

Then again, working vintage cassette tapes are incredibly scarce, while those sold for parts can be tricky and expensive to repair. That leaves you with one option: Teac. The Japanese hi-fi giant has ...