Blank Tapes
Photo courtesy of cooldude166861 over at Flickr When I was growing up, I taped stuff off television all the time. I think this was a habit that I got off my grandmother, who recorded both stuff for me and stuff for herself. I spent so much money on blank tapes just because I wanted to rewatch things, and this was long before television home releases and certainly streaming services, so oftentimes, taping things straight off the television was the only way to rewatch something without straight up waiting for a rerun of it. But it never occurred to me to talk about the covers of blank VHS tapes until someone brought it up recently, despite my love for and heavy use of them growing up. So that's what this post is going to be about, and then after this, we'll resume regularly scheduled roasting. This picture likely doesn't even contain every single example, but I certainly recognize more than a handful of these that I personally used, including the Fuji HQ120, the Sony...